“If you know the future, it’s already past.”
— Alan Watts, Way Beyond the West: The Game of Yes and No
Alan ₿
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“Don’t let words limit the possibilities of life.”
— Alan Watts, Eastern and Western Zen: World as Just So
“The only way to be perfectly clear about where the head stops and the neck begins is to chop off the head.”
— Alan Watts, Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life: On Being Vague
“You lose your breath by holding it.”
— Alan Watts, Way Beyond the West: Buddhist Fundamentals
“The beauty of the world is that it’s a dance.”
— Alan Watts, Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life: Nonsense
“There’s a strange way in which obviousness conceals things.”
— Alan Watts, Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life: Recollection
Have a blessed Sunday.
“Translated into colloquial American, Nirvana is whew.”
— Alan Watts, The Cause of Suffering
“When you want to go against the wind, you don’t fight the wind, you use the wind.”
— Alan Watts, Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life: Man and Nature
“This is a big jazz, this world.”
— Alan Watts, The Rhythmic Dance
“We need a kind of disorder in order to give life to order. We need a kind of nonsense in order to make things really meaningful. We need chaos as an essential element of life.”
— Alan Watts, Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life: Nonsense
“The present is always changing the past.”
— Alan Watts, The Conspiracy We Play on Ourselves
“Any place where we are may be considered the center of the universe. Anywhere that we stand can be considered the destination of our journey.”
— Alan Watts, Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life: On Being Vague
Reminder
“The ocean waves and the universe peoples.”
— Alan Watts, A Wiggly World
“So long as there is consciousness anywhere, there is I. You, then, in a way, look out through all eyes. And that perhaps is the secret of the great virtue of compassion.”
— Alan Watts, Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life: Death
“Self-consciousness is an echo in our heads.”
— Alan Watts, The Limits of Self-Awareness
“It is of very little use to us to be able to control and plan the future unless we are capable at the same time of living totally in the present.”
— Alan Watts, Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life: Time
“There is nothing that is so much the very essence of suffering as the fear of suffering itself.”
— Alan Watts, Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life: Pain
“Perception is a kind of piano playing.”
— Alan Watts, Awareness of the Self
