Alan Watts Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Life, Inspiring, Monday

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

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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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  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.

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

  Alan Watts

  People, Finding Happiness, Sometimes

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

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Change, Moving On

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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

  Alan Watts

  Believe

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• When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

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  Unique, Men, Definitions

  Alan Watts (2017). “Psychotherapy East & West”, p.7, New World Library

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• Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

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  Eye, Perception, Listening

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• Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

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  Moving, Ready

  Alan Watts (2010). “What Is Zen?”, p.53, New World Library

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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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• 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.

  Alan Watts

  Wisdom, Reality, Thinking

  "Alan Watts Teaches Meditation". Audiobook by Alan Watts, 1992.

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• You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

  Alan Watts

  Water, Wet

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

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• Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

  Alan Watts

  World, Meaningless

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• Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

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  Growing Up, People, Needs

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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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• Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

  Alan Watts

  Insecurity, Trying, Results

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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