Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
-
-
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
ALAN WATTS -
Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
ALAN WATTS -
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.
ALAN WATTS -
We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
ALAN WATTS -
If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
ALAN WATTS -
If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
ALAN WATTS -
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
ALAN WATTS -
Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
ALAN WATTS -
I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
ALAN WATTS -
The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
ALAN WATTS -
The present is always changing the past.
ALAN WATTS -
If, 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 WATTS -
When 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 WATTS -
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.
ALAN WATTS -
Society is our extended mind and body.
ALAN WATTS