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 More Quotes by Alan Watts More Quotes From Alan Watts How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy? Alan Watts republic government thinking Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up? Alan Watts lap doe hands You can't have something without nothing. Alan Watts Truly great companies are built on ideals, not just deals. Alan Watts accountability deals great-company To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is no escape. Alan Watts pain fighting running It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into the unknown. The process of awaking has begun, the discovery is underway. Alan Watts eye inspirational life The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless. Alan Watts lifeless human-nature permanent But we must not suffer over the suffering. Alan Watts adversity suffering The sound of the rain needs no translation. Alan Watts sound rain needs Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us. Alan Watts illusion 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 money people thinking Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one. Alan Watts breathing bridges practice Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use, it has a use - which may sound like a paradox, but is not. What, for instance, is the use of playing music? If you play to make money, to outdo some other artist, to be a person of culture, or to improve your mind, you are not really playing - for your mind is not on the music. You don't swing. When you come to think of it, playing or listening to music is a pure luxury, an addiction, a waste of valuable time and money for nothing more than making elaborate patterns of sound. Alan Watts swings artist thinking To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play. Alan Watts done play motivational Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever. Alan Watts anxiety opposites forever We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us. Alan Watts differentiation happens We all need to go out of our minds at least once a day. Alan Watts senses mind needs 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 careers jobs moving Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it. Alan Watts all-kinds kind reality There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion. Alan Watts eye inspiring lying
