You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping. Alan Watts More Quotes by Alan Watts More Quotes From Alan Watts A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion. Alan Watts wisdom reality thinking Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence. Alan Watts perception eye listening For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now. Alan Watts contentment able alive Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure. Alan Watts insecurity results trying Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment. Alan Watts growing-up people needs Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless. Alan Watts meaningless world Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way. Alan Watts short-life long way Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone. Alan Watts take-a-deep-breath wipe secret If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go. Alan Watts belief have-faith letting-go You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play! Alan Watts notes play forget The 'you' who you think you are does not exist. Alan Watts doe thinking We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble. Alan Watts anxiety strange roots If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them. Alan Watts improving may forget If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me. Alan Watts wake-up poor littles Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown cannot be avoided, that 'I' cannot continue, and that nothing can be ultimately fixed. When a man knows this, he lives for the first time in his life. By holding his breath, he loses it. By letting go he finds it. Alan Watts letting-go men mean The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. Alan Watts moving-on change motivational Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water” is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism. Alan Watts play reality ideas If you love a person, you say to that person, "Look, I love you, whatever that may be. I've seen quite a bit of it and I know there's lots that I haven't seen, but still it's you and I want you to be what you want to be. And I won't be happy if I've got you in a cage. You'd be a bird without song." Alan Watts song bird love The destination of life is this eternal moment. Alan Watts destination moments life If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise; you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are. Alan Watts pain ghost forgotten
