It’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 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 WATTSIt is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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 WATTSJesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
ALAN WATTSTry to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
ALAN WATTSWhen we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
ALAN WATTSI owe my solitude to other people.
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 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 WATTSProblems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
ALAN WATTSBelief clings, but faith lets go.
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 WATTSLike too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
ALAN WATTSThe world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
ALAN WATTSWhat we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
ALAN WATTSHuman desire tends to be insatiable.
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