110+ Alan Watts Quotes On Relationships, Time And Meditation

Alan Watts was an English philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. He wrote more than 25 books and numerous articles on topics such as personal identity, the true nature of reality, and the pursuit of happiness. His talks and writings continue to be influential in the fields of spirituality, psychology, and philosophy. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Alan Watts on life, love, relationships.

Top 10 Alan Watts Quotes

1. You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
2. Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.
3. 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.
4. This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
5. Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be
6. Choice is not a form of freedom in the sense of the word; choice is the act of hesitation that occurs before making a decision.
7. No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.
8. You are the universe experiencing itself.
9. No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
10. To come to your senses you have to go out of your mind.

Alan Watts Image Quotes

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be — Alan Watts

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen. — Alan Watts

To come to your senses you have to go out of your mind. — Alan Watts

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. — Alan Watts

Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless. — Alan Watts

Alan Watts Short Quotes

• Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.
• Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
• The mind's the standard of the man.
• The only serious side-effect of #‎ marijuana is that you might get arrested.
• Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
• Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
• We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
• You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
• The source of all light is in the eye.
• Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

Alan Watts Quotes About Life

By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us. — Alan Watts

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself. — Alan Watts

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. — Alan Watts

I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution , where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment... only to vanish forever. — Alan Watts

The destination of life is this eternal moment. — Alan Watts

If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid. — Alan Watts

Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world. — Alan Watts

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. — Alan Watts

Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified. — Alan Watts

Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time. — Alan Watts

Alan Watts Quotes About Love

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. — Alan Watts

Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death. — Alan Watts

And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom. — Alan Watts

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself. — Alan Watts

Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated — Alan Watts

The problem is to overcome the ingrained disbelief in the power of winning nature by love, in the gentle (ju) way (do) of turning with the skid, of controlling ourselves by cooperating with ourselves. — Alan Watts

Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life. — Alan Watts

There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. — Alan Watts

The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion. — Alan Watts

Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself. — Alan Watts

Alan Watts Quotes About Time

It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn. — Alan Watts

That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in Wonderland. You could use the dictionary, because... the sound of the rain needs no translation. — Alan Watts

We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin. — Alan Watts

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time — Alan Watts

There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again. — Alan Watts

The future is a concept, it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That's one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now. — Alan Watts

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are. — Alan Watts

Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time. — Alan Watts

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion. — Alan Watts

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle. — Alan Watts

Alan Watts Quotes About Meditation

When 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 Watts

If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate. — Alan Watts

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. — Alan Watts

There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to "get culture" or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost. — Alan Watts

Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up. — Alan Watts

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it. — Alan Watts

Alan Watts Quotes About Letting Go

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go. — Alan Watts

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. — Alan Watts

You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you would on dry land, you will drown. But if, on the other hand, you trust yourself to the water and let go, you will float. And this is exactly the situation of faith. — Alan Watts

But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering. — Alan Watts

Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown. — Alan Watts

Alan Watts Quotes About Nature

We 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 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

Try 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 Watts

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves. — Alan Watts

There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees, there are no flowers. They are really one organism. And so in the same way, everything in nature depends on everything else. — Alan Watts

Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known under the name of Taoism, the way of correspondence between man and the tendency or the course of natural world. — Alan Watts

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way. — Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless. — Alan Watts

...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature. — Alan Watts

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 Watts

Alan Watts Quotes About Change

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. — Alan Watts

Everything is perpetually becoming new. — Alan Watts

Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety. — Alan Watts

The anitya doctrine is, again, not quite the simple assertion that the world is impermanent, but rather that the more one grasps at the world, the more it changes. — Alan Watts

The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing. — Alan Watts

To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself. — Alan Watts

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing. — Alan Watts

When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was. — Alan Watts

Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once. — Alan Watts

As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything. — Alan Watts

Alan Watts Quotes About Reality

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. — Alan Watts

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water” is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism. — Alan Watts

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. — Alan Watts

Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality. — Alan Watts

Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others. They do not belong to particular persons any more than the sun, moon and stars. — Alan Watts

Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it. — Alan Watts

The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality. — Alan Watts

You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are. — Alan Watts

Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost. — Alan Watts

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality. — Alan Watts

Alan Watts Quotes About Universe

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence. — Alan Watts

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. — Alan Watts

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. — Alan Watts

Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe. — Alan Watts

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever. — Alan Watts

There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity of the universe and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do. — Alan Watts

The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe. — Alan Watts

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. — Alan Watts

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens. — Alan Watts

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. — Alan Watts

Alan Watts Quotes About People

Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons. — Alan Watts

The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game. — Alan Watts

People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live. — Alan Watts

I owe my solitude to other people. — Alan Watts

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile. — Alan Watts

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do. — Alan Watts

The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing higher can it give them, and nothing further should they seek for behind it; there is the limit. — Alan Watts

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. — Alan Watts

Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most people are paid for simply putting up with monotony — Alan Watts

All I'm saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated form of minerals. — Alan Watts

Alan Watts Quotes About Faith

To 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 Watts

Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown. — Alan Watts

Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown. — Alan Watts

Faith is a state of openness or trust. — Alan Watts

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. — Alan Watts

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. — Alan Watts

Alan Watts Quotes About Sense

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. — Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work. — Alan Watts

We all need to go out of our minds at least once a day. When we go out of our minds we quickly come to our senses. — Alan Watts

The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs. — Alan Watts

To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses. — Alan Watts

Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible. — Alan Watts

In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life. — Alan Watts

For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God. — Alan Watts

Sexual love is a troubled and problematic relationship in cultures where there is a strong sense of man's separation from nature, especially when the realm of nature is felt to be inferior or contaminated with evil. — Alan Watts

Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery. — Alan Watts

Alan Watts Quotes About Feel

This is what Zen means by being detached—not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked, and through whom the experiences of the world pass like the reflections of birds flying over water. — Alan Watts

When you feel that you are a lonely, put-upon, isolated little stranger confronting all this, you are under the influence of an illusory feeling, because the truth is quite the reverse. You are the whole works, all that there is, and always was, and always has been, and always will be. — Alan Watts

The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops eating, but the man is never sure when to stop. When he has eaten as much as his belly can take, he still feels empty, he still feels an urge for further gratification. — Alan Watts

To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet. — Alan Watts

To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch. — Alan Watts

All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head. — Alan Watts

Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence. — Alan Watts

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt. — Alan Watts

To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely one with this universe. — Alan Watts

People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.' — Alan Watts

Alan Watts Famous Quotes And Sayings

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be — Alan Watts

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen. — Alan Watts

To come to your senses you have to go out of your mind. — Alan Watts

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil. — Alan Watts

We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played. — Alan Watts

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. — Alan Watts

It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play. And they look upon the whole manifestation of all the universes as a play, as a sport, as a kind of dance — lila perhaps being somewhat related to our word lilt — Alan Watts

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. — Alan Watts

Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone. — Alan Watts

We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble. — Alan Watts

If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise; you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are. — Alan Watts

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together. — Alan Watts

To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give; no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane. — Alan Watts

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. — Alan Watts

The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego. — Alan Watts

Imagine a multidimensiona l spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image. — Alan Watts

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is. — Alan Watts

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come. — Alan Watts

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine. — Alan Watts

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone. — Alan Watts

The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive. — Alan Watts

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. — Alan Watts

Do you see yourself as a victim of the world, or do you see yourself as the world? — Alan Watts

I am amazed that Congressmen can pass a bill imposing severe penalties on anyone who burns the American flag, whereas they are responsible for burning that for which the flag stands: the United States as a territory, as a people, and as a biological manifestation. That is an example of our perennial confusion of symbols with realities. — Alan Watts

What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call "here and now," and you are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing... The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around. The real deep-down you is the whole universe. — Alan Watts

What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things. — Alan Watts

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is. — Alan Watts

The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond doubt, it's like the empty sky. Why drag in right and wrong? — Alan Watts

To define is to limit, to set boundaries, to compare and to contrast, and for this reason, the universe, the all, seems to defy definition....Just as no one in his senses would look for the morning news in a dictionary, no one should use speaking and thinking to find out what cannot be spoken or thought. — Alan Watts

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything. — Alan Watts

The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist. — Alan Watts

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present — Alan Watts

There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day. — Alan Watts

Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves and our world. — Alan Watts

The sound of the rain needs no translation. — Alan Watts

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity. — Alan Watts

The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club. — Alan Watts

A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool. — Alan Watts

The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now. — Alan Watts

To the Taoist mentality, the aimless, empty life does not suggest anything depressing. On the contrary, it suggests the freedom of clouds and mountain streams, wandering nowhere, of flowers in impenetrable canyons, beautiful for no one to see, and of the ocean surf forever washing the sand, to no end. — 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

To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam. — Alan Watts

The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether is cowardly avoidance of a difficult job. For we have to learn the art of enjoying things BECAUSE they are impermanent. — Alan Watts

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. — Alan Watts

The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe. I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. — Alan Watts

Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment. — Alan Watts

Life Lessons by Alan Watts

1. Alan Watts taught that life is meant to be enjoyed, not endured, and that we should strive to be present in the moment and accept life's uncertainty.
2. He also believed that we should embrace our emotions and not be afraid to take risks in order to live a full and meaningful life.
3. Finally, Watts encouraged us to be mindful of our thoughts and actions, as they have the power to shape our lives and the lives of those around us.