Alan Watts Quotes About Meditation

Quotes about: Meditation

• You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

  Alan Watts

  Meditation, Humans, Human Activity

  Alan Watts (2010). “Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation”, p.67, New World Library

• Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation in which drugs are no longer necessary or useful. If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.

  Alan Watts

  Eye, Phones, Meditation

• If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me to attend to the here and now. If, then , my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

  Alan Watts

  Buddhist, Memories, Real

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

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

  Alan Watts

  Life, Inspiring, Yoga

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

• If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Boiler Room

• When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

  Alan Watts

  Journey, Discovery, Meditation And Yoga

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

• Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one.

  Alan Watts

  Practice, Breathing, Bridges

  Alan Watts (2010). “What Is Zen?”, p.71, New World Library

• We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.

  Alan Watts

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

• When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.

  Alan Watts

  Dance, Journey, Play

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

• Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

  Alan Watts

  Meditation, Way, Shut Up

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