Alan Watts Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Long Quotes

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Long Quotes

Where-so-ever beings exist throughout all galaxies, it doesn't make any difference - you are all of them....and when they come into being, that's you coming into being.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Differences Quotes

We therefore work, not for the work's sake, but for money—and money is supposed to get us what we really want in our hours of leisure and play. In the United States even poor people have lots of money compared with the wretched and skinny millions of India, Africa, and China, while our middle andupper classes (or should we say "income groups") are as prosperous as princes. Yet, by and large, they have but slight taste for pleasure. Money alone cannot buy pleasure, though it can help. For enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Art Quotes , Class Quotes

Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Forever Quotes

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

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Way Quotes , Liberation Quotes

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

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Worry Quotes , Energy Quotes

Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Art Quotes , Skills Quotes

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.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Space Quotes , People Quotes

Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple greed will be far less destructive, because the aggressor will be careful not to destroy what he is fighting to capture. Reasonable - that is, human - men will always be capable of compromise, but men who have dehumanized themselves by becoming the blind worshipers of an idea or an ideal are fanatics whose devotion to abstractions makes them the enemies of life.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , War Quotes , Fighting Quotes

To perceive that form reveals the void, and to see that the void reveals form, is the secret for the overcoming of death. To the extent that one is unaware of space, one is unaware of one's own eternity — it's the same thing!

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Death Quotes , Space Quotes

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

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Love Quotes , Good Morning Quotes

Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Unique Quotes

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Focus Quotes , Ego Quotes

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

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Life Quotes , Change Quotes

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.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Faith Quotes

Zen... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Humor Quotes

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Buddhism Quotes , Law Quotes

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

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Spirituality Quotes

For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Desire Quotes , Want Quotes

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Trying Quotes