3 Alan Watts Quotes For Greater Inner Peace
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But peace can be made only by those who are peaceful, and love can be shown only by those who love. No work of love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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Focus On What’s Great About The Present Moment
If we want our reality to be a certain way — say, filled with love and success — then we have to become a source of those things from within. Telling ourselves 100 reasons everyday why we suck and haven’t gotten enough done is definitely not going to fill our world with love and success. Instead, we can practice gratefulness for what we do love, and seize what small opportunities we already have in front of us.
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We suffer from the delusion that the entire universe is held in order by the categories of human thought, fearing that if we do not hold to them with the utmost tenacity, everything will vanish into chaos. We must repeat: memory, thought, language, & logic are essential to human life. They are one half of sanity. But a person who is only half sane is insane. To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words — to think, remember, & plan. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about.
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Truth Is Experience, Not Words
It’s a common theme in Buddhism and any practice that involves meditation to seek to “quiet the mind,” to stop the mental chatter of unnecessary, agitating, & disempowering words we use constantly. Zen Buddhism goes so far to remove our dependency on language that at times it can seem like nonsense.
Of course we need language to function in society, and to understand abstract patterns in our life. But our life is not made of words; it’s made of experiences. To constantly be thinking is to always have a veil of words over your eyes, blocking you from really drinking in the beauty of the present.
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The way of Wisdom lies, therefore, in recognizing things which happen to you as your own karma — not as punishments for misdeeds or rewards for virtue (for there really is no “bad” or “good” karma), but as your own doing. For in this way you come to see that the real “you” includes both the controlled and the uncontrolled aspects of your experience.
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Good & Bad Are Two Faces of One Coin
Karma in Hinduism and Buddhism really just means “causality.” If you put your hand on a hot stove, you’ll get burned. You only “earned” the burn in the sense that you caused it. It happened. The key is to open your eyes and wake up to the fact that hot stoves burn, and adjust your behavior to keep your hands off them. If you accidentally do it again, it’s not divine punishment — it was just karma, cause and effect. It just happened, and now you can forgive yourself.
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Be Like Water
Water takes the shape of whatever it is poured into. You are like the water, and the more peaceful you become, the more accurate your perception of reality will become. The more accurate your perception, the better you’ll be able to identify karmic patterns and change what you’re manifesting. And the more you’re manifesting peace, in this subconsciously active way, the more peaceful you become in the now.
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