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“Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.”
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“We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.”
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“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
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“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
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“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”
Alan Watts quotes (American Writer, Thinker and Interpreter of Zen Buddhism, 1915-1973)
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“Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.”
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“Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.”
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“We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.”
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“Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.”
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“Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.”
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“How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.”
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