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Alan Watts - 30 best Quotes

Alan Watts was a western philosopher who popularized eastern spiritual philosophy called Advaita vedanta and Zen philosophy with his own way in western earth. So here i have written 30 best mind blowing quotes of Alan Watts.

The future is a concept, it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow and 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 an eternal Now.

 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.

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 Better to have a short life that Full of what you like doing, than a long spent in a miserable way.

 No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

 Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

 The Ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

 The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in a improvised present.

We seem to be like flies caught in honesty because life is sweet we don't want to give it up, and yet the more we become involved in it, the more we are trapped, limited and frustrated. We love it and hate it at the same time.

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 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.

 You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; A student of Buddhism tries to unlearn everyday.

 What I am really saying is that you don't need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the star, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.

 I will tell you what hermits realize, if you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you will come to understand that you are connected with everything.

 The positive cannot exist without the negative.

 You can make any human activity into Meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

You didn't come into this world, you came out of it like a wave from the ocean. You are no stranger here.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

There is never anything but the present. If one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the God made for fun.

If you are ready to up, you are going to wake up. If you are not ready, you are going to stay that you are just a poor little me.

 You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

 Things become complicated only when you think about them.

 Life and Love generate effort but effort will not generate them.

 If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your life Completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing things you don't like doing, which is stupid.

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

 You are the universe experiencing itself.

 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.

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.

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

The art of  living is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment. In regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive

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