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Alan Watts Quotes about Inspiring

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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.

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.

Life, Inspiring, Simple

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

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.

Life, Inspiring, Monday

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

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Freedom

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

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

Inspiring, Way, Problem

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

What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.

Inspiring, Running, Stars

Alan Watts (2010). “Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation”, p.92, New World Library

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Inspiring, Thinking, Example

Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.50, Souvenir Press

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

Inspiring, Forests, Quiet

Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

Inspiring, Sleep, Trying

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Inspiring, Pain, Mental Health

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

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Inspiring, Faith, Letting Go

The menu is not the meal.

Inspiring, Philosophy, Meals

To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.

Inspiring, Conventions, Deceived

Alan Watts (1989). “The way of Zen”, Vintage

Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

Inspiring, Frustration, Trying

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

Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever.

Inspiring, Forever, Gone

The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.

Inspiring, Struggle, Killing

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

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Inspiring, Peace, Stars

The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

Inspiring, Wisdom, Joy

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

Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.

Inspiring, Life And Love, Attitude

Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.53, Souvenir Press

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

Inspiring, Ocean, Wave

Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.

Inspiring, Unique, Tree

Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.56, Souvenir Press

What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

Inspiring, Fabric, Structure

"What Is Reality?". Book by Alan Watts, 1973.

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Life, Inspiring, Yoga

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

There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again.

Inspiring, Circles, Watches

Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.12, Souvenir Press

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

Inspiring, Ocean, Way

There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.

Life, Inspiring, Formulas

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

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