If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
ALAN WATTSIf you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
ALAN WATTSTrying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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 WATTSOnly doubtful truths need defense.
ALAN WATTSHurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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 discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
ALAN WATTSIt is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
ALAN WATTSNormally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
ALAN WATTSThe present is always changing the past.
ALAN WATTSStay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
ALAN WATTSOne is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
ALAN WATTSWe do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
ALAN WATTSThere is no other reality than present reality.
ALAN WATTSHuman desire tends to be insatiable.
ALAN WATTSI am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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 WATTS