Zen is a way of liberation concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous but what is.

Alan Watts
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  2. Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth? - Simon Bolivar

  3. That which is true must always remain true, though the applications may change greatly from generation to generation. It is the absence of such fundamental certainties, no doubt, that leads men into continual search for a satisfying religion, or that drives them away from their... - John A. Widtsoe

  4. The better men know the Lord, the better may the eternal truths we learn be applied in our daily lives. - John A. Widtsoe

  5. The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same. - Anonymous

More Quotes By Alan Watts
  1. Carried to its final extreme, the logical end of this type of reaction to life is suicide. The hard-bitten kind of person is always, as it were, a partial suicide; some of himself is already dead

  2. Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent... this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

  3. Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel for love is not ours to command.

  4. Zen is a way of liberation concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous but what is.

  5. If we live we live if we die we die if we suffer we suffer if we are terrified we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

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