Each day we go to our work in the hope of discovering.

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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion. ― Alan Watts

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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

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But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything. ― Alan Watts

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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. ― Alan Watts

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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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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. ― Alan Watts

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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social environment. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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