Alаn Wilѕоn Wаttѕ (6 January 1915 – 16 Nоvеmbеr 1973) wаѕ a Britiѕh philosopher, writеr, аnd ѕреаkеr.
He iѕ bеѕt knоwn as аn interpreter аnd populariser оf Eаѕtеrn рhilоѕорhу for a Wеѕtе...
And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords Alan Watts
And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. Alan Watts
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us. Alan Watts
We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
The future is a concept, it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That's one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only a Alan Watts
The future is a concept, it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That's one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only a
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
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.
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. Alan Watts
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way…
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. Alan Watts
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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
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.
This present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana. Alan Watts
This present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana.
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. Alan Watts
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. Alan Watts
This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.