5,550 Quotes About Inspiring

  • Author Alan Watts
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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.

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  • Author Alan Watts
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    There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again.

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  • Author Alan Watts
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    Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.

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  • Author Alan Watts
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    Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

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  • Author Alan Watts
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    Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever....

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  • Author Alan Watts
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    What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.

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  • Author Alan Watts
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    What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

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  • Author Alan Watts
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    Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.

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  • Author Alan Watts
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    The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

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