Alan Watts Quotes About Goals

Quotes about: Goals

• Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.

  Alan Watts

  Goal, Missing, World

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

• ...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.

  Alan Watts

  Technology, Civilization, Goal

• The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the gratification of a self which is no more than an idea, and the morrow which never comes.

  Alan Watts

  Self, Ideas, Goal

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

• Courage is the goal of cowards.

  Alan Watts

  Goal, Coward

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