"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your ain teeth." ― Alan Watts
"Man suffers only considering he takes seriously what the gods made for fun." ― Alan Wilson Watts
"We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are non actually our own. For nosotros recall in terms of languages and images which we did non invent, but which were given to u.s.a. by our club." ― Alan Watts
"The meaning of life is simply to be live. It is then plainly and then obvious and so unproblematic. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves." ― Alan Wilson Watts, The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts
"This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you lot are doing in the here and at present. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play." ― Alan Watts
"Muddy water is all-time cleared by leaving information technology alone." ― Alan Watts
"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When yous swim you don't grab hold of the h2o, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and bladder." ― Alan Wilson Watts
"Advice? I don't have advice. Stop aspiring and beginning writing. If y'all're writing, you lot're a author. Write like you're a goddamn expiry row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there'southward no risk for a pardon. Write like you're clinging to the edge of a cliff, white duke, on your last jiff, and you lot've got just i last matter to say, like you're a bird flight over us and y'all can encounter everything, and please, for God's sake, tell the states something that volition relieve usa from ourselves. Have a deep breath and tell u.s. your deepest, darkest secret, so we tin can wipe our forehead and know that we're not alone. Write similar you accept a message from the king. Or don't. Who knows, maybe you lot're one of the lucky ones who doesn't have to." ― Alan Wilson Watts
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with information technology, and join the dance." ― Alan Wilson Watts
"You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself." ― Alan Watts
"The bill of fare is not the meal." ― Alan Watts
"You are a office of what the whole universe is doing in the same fashion that a moving ridge is a role of what the whole ocean is doing." ― Alan Watts
"Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. Nosotros are the witnesses through which the universe becomes witting of its glory, of its magnificence." ― Alan Wilson Watts
"I have realized that the by and time to come are existent illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." ― Alan Wilson Watts
"Jesus Christ knew he was God. Then wake up and detect out somewhen who you really are. In our civilisation, of course, they'll say you're crazy and you're cursing, and they'll either put yous in jail or in a nut business firm (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake upwardly in Bharat and tell your friends and relations, 'My goodness, I've merely discovered that I'one thousand God,' they'll laugh and say, 'Oh, congratulations, at last yous found out." ― Alan Wilson Watts, The Essential Alan Watts
"The more than a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless." ― Alan Watts
"We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized past the illusion of time, in which the then-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with retentivity and expectation. Nosotros exercise not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. We are ill with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas." ― Alan Wilson Watts
"The art of living... is neither careless globe-trotting on the one mitt nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it every bit utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive." ― Alan Wilson Watts
"Try to imagine what it will be similar to become to sleep and never wake up... now effort to imagine what it was similar to wake upward having never gone to sleep." ― Alan Watts
"Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, nosotros make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly bundled constellations." ― Alan Watts
"Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow tin can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the nowadays, since it is in the present and merely in the present that you lot live. In that location is no other reality than present reality, and so that, fifty-fifty if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the hereafter would be to miss the signal everlastingly." ― Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
"A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a pupil of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily." ― Alan Watts
"Every intelligent private wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most hard of all things to know." ― Alan Watts
"Information technology's like yous took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Nail! And all that ink spread. And in the middle, it's dumbo, isn't information technology? And equally information technology gets out on the edge, the little droplets become finer and effectively and make more than complicated patterns, see? And so in the same way, there was a big bang at the start of things and it spread. And you and I, sitting hither in this room, as complicated human beings, are way, way out on the fringe of that blindside. We are the complicated trivial patterns on the finish of it. Very interesting. But and so nosotros ascertain ourselves as being only that. If you call back that you are simply inside your skin, y'all define yourself as i very complicated little curlique, way out on the edge of that explosion. Way out in space, and style out in fourth dimension. Billions of years ago, you lot were a large bang, but now you're a complicated man. And so we cut ourselves off, and don't feel that we're still the big blindside. But you are. Depends how you ascertain yourself. You lot are actually--if this is the way things started, if at that place was a big blindside in the beginning-- you lot're not something that's a result of the large bang. You're not something that is a sort of boob on the end of the process. You are however the process. You are the big bang, the original forcefulness of the universe, coming on as whoever y'all are. When I meet you, I meet not just what you define yourself as--Mr so-and- and so, Ms so-and-and then, Mrs so-and-so--I run across every one of you as the primordial energy of the universe coming on at me in this particular way. I know I'm that, too. Only nosotros've learned to define ourselves every bit separate from information technology. " ― Alan Watts
"We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique activeness of the total universe." ― Alan Wilson Watts
"Life is like music for its ain sake. Nosotros are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music nosotros are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded nowadays." ― Alan Watts
"When we endeavour to do power or command over someone else, nosotros cannot avert giving that person the very same power or control over us." ― Alan Wilson Watts, The Way of Zen
"Never pretend to a dearest which you do not really feel, for honey is non ours to command." ― Alan Watts
"What we accept forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to accept conventions as well seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for case, money ... only information technology is absurd to take coin too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the aforementioned fashion, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things." ― Alan Wilson Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Bulletin for an Age of Anxiety
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