This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe. Alan Watts More Quotes by Alan Watts More Quotes From Alan Watts You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this Universe. You didn't come into this world; you came out of it. Like a wave from the ocean. Alan Watts ocean energy world 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. Alan Watts play class art ...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters. Alan Watts together letters world People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live. Alan Watts finding-happiness sometimes people Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown. Alan Watts oneself faith letting-go The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger and smaller and smaller the universe becomes in order to escape the investigation because we are the universe looking at itself. Alan Watts telescopes order looks The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not know how to adapt himself. The intellectual who tries to escape from neurosis by escaping from the facts is merely acting on the principle that “where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise. Alan Watts ignorance wise philosophy The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love. Alan Watts killing struggle inspiring 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 wisdom joy inspiring 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 nature winning love Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Alan Watts inability accepting intellectual The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is Alan Watts whole world 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 guilt mindfulness may The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune. Alan Watts process fortune impossible If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death. Alan Watts future happiness death And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning. Alan Watts want people world 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 preaching bodhisattva able Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior. Alan Watts atheist men jesus If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic. Alan Watts spring friendship men A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. Alan Watts term trying world
