Alan WattsFor unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your… ▶371HopeLifeTime
Alan WattsWars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.371Philosophy
Alan WattsYou can't make love without art.371Love
Alan WattsWhen we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things. ✨ Alan Watts (1989). The way of Zen, Vintage372Thought
Alan WattsTo 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. ✨ T… ▶372HopeReading
Alan WattsA myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.362Truth
Alan WattsThe truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away. ✨ Alan Watt… ▶373PhilosophyTruth
Alan WattsThe meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.351LifePhilosophy
Alan WattsThe real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or no fuss.352Hope
Alan WattsTo go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses. ✨ Alan Watts (1977). The essence of Alan Watts, Cel… ▶374Thought
Alan WattsWhen 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 discover… ▶364LifeTimeTruth
Alan WattsThe self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad one at that, since he has given no … ▶353PhilosophyThought
Alan WattsNo one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every mome… ▶353Time
Alan WattsSociety is our extended mind and body. ✨ Alan Watts (2011). The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, p.50, Souvenir Press331HumanityReadingThought
Alan WattsParadoxical 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… ▶353HumanityLife
Alan WattsImagine a multidimensiona l spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected… ▶364Reflection
Alan WattsIf we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.353Death
Alan WattsYet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are playing a rarified and lofty form of the o… ▶365Death
Alan WattsAny systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.343Humor
Alan WattsEverything is perpetually becoming new.354Humanity
Alan WattsTechnology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. ✨ Alan Watts (2010). Tao: The Watercourse Wa… ▶332Humanity
Alan WattsBut 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 happenin… ▶343LifeThought
Alan WattsYou can't have something without nothing. ✨ Alan Watts (2007). In My Own Way: An Autobiography, 1915-1965, p.357, New World Library376Reading
Alan WattsWhat would you do if money was no object?343Philosophy
Alan WattsWhat you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself. ✨ What Is Reality?. Book by Alan Watts, 1973.343LifeReadingTruth
Alan WattsTo be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it. ✨ Alan Watts (1989). The way of Zen, Vintage376Humanity
Alan WattsLife exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it … ▶354LifeTime
Alan WattsWhen you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was. ✨ Alan Watts (2010).… ▶321Thought
Alan WattsYou're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the… ▶344Reading
Alan WattsMan is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy. ... I am absolutely amazed to discover myself … ▶344Life
