Alan Watts Quotes

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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

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  Letting Go, Ego, Purpose

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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.

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  Life, Inspiring, Simple

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

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

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  Life, Cheer Up, Reality

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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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• 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.

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  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.

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  People, Finding Happiness, Sometimes

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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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• We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.

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  Journey, Heaven, Musical

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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.

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  Motivational, Change, Moving On

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

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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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• 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.

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  Mean, Past, Thinking

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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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• The destination of life is this eternal moment.

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  Life, Moments, Destination

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

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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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• 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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• Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

  Alan Watts

  World, Meaningless

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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.

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  Wisdom, Reality, Thinking

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

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• Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.

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  Spirituality, Openness

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• It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.

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  Acorns, Turns, Take Time

  Alan Watts (2017). “Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek”, p.24, Sounds True

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• The sound of the rain needs no translation.

  Alan Watts

  Rain, Sound, Needs

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