Alan Watts Quotes About Decisions

Quotes about: Decisions

• We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide

  Alan Watts

  Decision, Doe, Our Actions

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

• But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my" thoughts and actions---were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that "I make them"; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of opposites.

  Alan Watts

  Opposites, Play, Choices

  Alan Watts (2017). “Psychotherapy East & West”, p.65, New World Library

• For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.

  Alan Watts

  Bird, Decision, Singing

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

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