Alan Watts Quotes

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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.

  Alan Watts

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

  Alan Watts

  Life, Cheer Up, Reality

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

  Alan Watts

  Degrees, Measuring, Productivity

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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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• You are the universe experiencing itself.

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  Eye Opening, Universe

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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.

  Alan Watts

  How You Feel, Feels, Fronts

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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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• 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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• 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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• Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

  Alan Watts

  Art, Skills, Energy

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

  Alan Watts

  Believe

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

  Alan Watts

  Enlightenment, Awakening, Recognition

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

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

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Way, Problem

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.44, Souvenir Press

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• What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

  Alan Watts

  Inability

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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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• The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?

  Alan Watts

  Realizing, Should, Right Now

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• By going out of your mind, you come to your senses

  Alan Watts

  Mind, Going Out, Senses

  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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• 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.

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Ocean

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

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