“What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. “Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done it’s just doing it.”ġ5. “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.”ġ4. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”ġ3. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. “Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.”ġ2.
“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”ġ1. “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.”ġ0. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.”Ĩ.“We do not ‘come into’ this world we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.”ĩ. “The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.”ħ.“Things are as they are. 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.”Ħ. “What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. No work of 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.”ĥ. “Peace can be made only by those who are peaceful, and love can be shown only by those who love.
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“The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.”ģ.“Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.”Ĥ. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”Ģ. “This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. SEE ALSO: 5 Definitive Signs Your Third Eye Is Openingġ. Here is a glimpse into some of his profound wisdom. Perhaps the most profound part of Watts was that he had the incredible ability to express complex thoughts in the simplest of ways. With more than 25 books, multitudes of articles on higher consciousness, identity, the nature of reality, the meaning of life, and the pursuit of happiness, he left an impressive body of work that continues to inspire people 40 years after his death. Writer, speaker, and British philosopher Alan Watts is best known for his interpretation popularization of Asian culture and philosophy for the West.