Alan Watts Quotes

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• Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

  Alan Watts

  Letting Go, Ego, Purpose

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• By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.

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  Mind Blowing, Curiosity, Pushing

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  This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Inspiring, Monday

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Inspiring, Simple

  Alan Watts (2011). “Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life: Collected Talks: 1960-1969”, p.37, New World Library

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• Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Cheer Up, Reality

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  No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

  Alan Watts

  Differences, Worry, Anxiety

  Alan Watts (2017). “Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek”, p.93, Sounds True

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• Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

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  Degrees, Measuring, Productivity

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• You are the universe experiencing itself.

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  Eye Opening, Universe

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• We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality.

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  Memories, Past, Reality

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• The future is a concept, it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That's one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.

  Alan Watts

  Thinking, Talking, Tomorrow

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.

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  How You Feel, Feels, Fronts

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• The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, Life, Simple

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• People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

  Alan Watts

  People, Finding Happiness, Sometimes

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• As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

  Alan Watts

  Freedom, Water, Leaving

  Alan W. Watts (2011). “The Way of Zen”, p.157, Vintage

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• It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into the unknown. The process of awaking has begun, the discovery is underway.

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  Inspirational, Life, Eye

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• We see what we believe rather than what we see.

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  Believe

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• Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown.

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  Suicide, Commitment, Intellectual

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• 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 action of the total universe.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Ocean

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.8, Souvenir Press

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• You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this Universe. You didn't come into this world; you came out of it. Like a wave from the ocean.

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  Ocean, World, Energy

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• Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

  Alan Watts

  Buddhist, Fun, Buddhism

  Alan Watts (2003). “Become what You are”, p.29, Shambhala Publications

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• To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Mind, Important

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back from the present. That now is the creative point of life. So you see it's like the idea of forgiving somebody, you change the meaning of the past by doing that...Also, watch the flow of music. The melody as its expressed is changed by notes that come later. Just as the meaning of a sentence...you wait till later to find out what the sentence means...The present is always changing the past.

  Alan Watts

  Mean, Past, Thinking

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• The destination of life is this eternal moment.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Moments, Destination

  Alan Watts (2011). “In My Own Way: An Autobiography”, p.324, New World Library

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• Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.

  Alan Watts

  Secret, Wipe, Take A Deep Breath

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• The sound of the rain needs no translation.

  Alan Watts

  Rain, Sound, Needs

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