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Alan Watts Quotes

Biography: Alan Watts is known for popularizing Eastern philosophy for Western au... more Biography: Alan Watts is known for popularizing Eastern philosophy for Western audiences. He was a British writer, speaker, and self-styled "philosophical entertainer," who distilled complex topics from Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism into accessible concepts. Watts authored over 25 books and numerous essays, contributing significantly to the 1960s counterculture movement. less

"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead, you relax and float"

Tags: Mindfulness, Inner peace, Faith, Acceptance, Trust

"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now"

Tags: Mindfulness, Present moment, Presence, Future planning, Living in the present

"Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence"

Tags: Mindfulness, Inner peace, Productivity, Awareness, Well-being

"The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is"

Tags: Philosophy, Mindfulness, Existence, Reality, Awareness

"The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing."

Tags: Philosophy, Life, Change, Joy, Impermanence

"We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree."

Tags: Philosophy, Self-awareness, Spirituality, Humanity, Nature

"You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes."

Tags: Inspiration, Perspective, Self-discovery, Vision, Potential

"Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality. Not God in a politically kingly sense, but God in the sense of being the self, the deep down basic whatever there is. And you're all that... only you're pretending you're not."

Tags: Philosophy, Self-discovery, Spirituality, Consciousness, Inner self

"Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be."

Tags: Personal growth, Self-awareness, Mindfulness, Self-discovery, Change

"Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal. For the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever."

Tags: Philosophy, Mindfulness, Existence, Awareness, Time

"Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations."

Tags: Philosophy, Perspective, Perception, Nature, Acceptance

"The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless."

Tags: Philosophy, Life, Growth, Change, Existence

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

Tags: Resilience, Mindfulness, Growth, Change, Transformation

"The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves."

Tags: Self-discovery, Human nature, Achievement, Existence, Life philosophy

"If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go."

Tags: Spirituality, Faith, Religion, God, Letting go

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