54 result(s) for Alan Watts Quotes.
"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 an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future."
"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."
"The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love."
"For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax."
"You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here."
"You are a function of what the whole universe is doing."
"Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree."
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"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim, you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do, you will sink and drown. Instead, you relax and float."
"Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe."
"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."
"It's better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way."
"There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering."
"To travel is to take a journey into yourself."
"You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean."
"What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do."
"Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself."
"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."
"Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations."
"We do not 'come into' this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree."
"Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick."
"There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said."
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"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."
"The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there."
"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."
"We do not ‘come into’ this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean ‘waves’, the universe ‘peoples’."
"What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it."
"Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way."
"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command."
"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax and float."
"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."
"You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes."
"The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless."
"You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself."
"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain."
"The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive."
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"For any one of us to feel that he or she is exemplary is almost a sacrilegious self-importance."
"The difficulty is that we have set up a subjective division between the individual organism and the general state of the universe, a dualism that makes us feel that we are something other than the universe in the universe."
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is."
"To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, "
"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."
"Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination."
"So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself."
"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."
"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes."
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."
"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."
"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone."
"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."
"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun."
"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float."
"The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new-and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive."
"The menu is not the meal."
"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."
"You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are."
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