Alan Watts quotes

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and …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.

Life Work

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring …You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Universe Philosophy

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for …Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Philosophy Religion Short Humor

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it …Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Anger Short

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, …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.

Trust Freedom Faith

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the …The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Life lessons World Reality Change

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of …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.

Consciousness Non-duality Universe

The menu is not the …The menu is not the meal.

Philosophy

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which …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.

Future Past

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, …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.

Life

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the …Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

Question Problems Philosophy

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our …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.

Emotions Thought Society



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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to …Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

Consciousness Universe