Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
ALAN WATTSNormally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
ALAN WATTSOur pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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 WATTSI owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN WATTSMuddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
ALAN WATTSOnly doubtful truths need defense.
ALAN WATTSThe present is always changing the past.
ALAN WATTSIf, 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 WATTSIn reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
ALAN WATTSThere is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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.
ALAN WATTSNothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
ALAN WATTSYou’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
ALAN WATTSLife is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
ALAN WATTSThe only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
ALAN WATTSThe world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
ALAN WATTS