"Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is."

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Source : Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

Alan Watts

#Enlightenment Quotes #Awakening Quotes #Recognition Quotes

“Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety ...”
“I came up in battling and just wanting to compete. Even if you had no real problem with someone, you just wanted to compete.”
“It is important to understand that if you do fall, it's important for you to get right back up again.”
“The Iranian government prevented journalists from marching in solidarity with the victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre yet it organized flag-burning protests against the French embassy, that hasn't ingratiated them to a French nuclear negotiating team that is deeply cynical about the nature of the Iranian regime.”
“God never put anyone in a place too small to grow in.”
“Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.”
“The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.”

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