My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
ALAN WATTSMy death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
ALAN WATTSHurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
ALAN WATTSThe art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
ALAN WATTSWhat 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.
ALAN WATTSWhen you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
ALAN WATTSIt’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
ALAN WATTSPlaying a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
ALAN WATTSYou 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.
ALAN WATTSOnly doubtful truths need defense.
ALAN WATTSYou didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
ALAN WATTSThe menu is not the meal.
ALAN WATTSTo travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
ALAN WATTSDo not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
ALAN WATTSThings 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.
ALAN WATTSThe 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.
ALAN WATTSThe past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
ALAN WATTS