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Biography - Alan Watts:

British philosopher, writer and speaker.
Born: 1915 - Died: 1973
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
United Kingdom

You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.


You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.

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Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Vous êtes le big bang, la force originelle de l’univers, en venant comme vous êtes.

German
Du bist der Urknall, die ursprüngliche Kraft des Universums, so wie du in Erscheinung trittst.




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He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

You are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that the wave is something that the whole ocean is doing.

One light of the Sun, even though it be sundered by walls, by mountains, by a myriad other barriers.

Now do you think one can acquire any appreciable knowledge of the nature of the soul without knowing the nature of the whole?

Call to mind the whole of Substance of which you have a very small portion, and the whole of time whereof a small hair's breadth has been determined for you, and of the chain of causation whereof you are how small a link.




Quotes for: strength


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Consciousness of our powers augments them.





I dare to believe that inner joy has some secret power to win the favour of fortune.





On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.





...and nobody knows the extent of his strength until he has tried.





There are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts.





Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.











Quotes for: universe


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Quotes about the Universe:


The universe confounds me! I cannot imagine that such a ‘clock’ can exist without there being a Clockmaker.





Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.





The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is.





Everything mystical is personal — accordingly it is an elementary variation of the universe.





All I did was to look at what the universe showed me.





Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom can dissolve everything, an atom can save everything











Quotes for: Big Bang


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Quotes for: Big Bang


Many scientists did not like the idea that the universe had a beginning, a moment of creation.







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Alan Watts also said...


The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.





A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.





You can't live at all, unless you can live fully now.





Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.





No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.





Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.












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