Quote

Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has 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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alan Watts
Age: 58 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 6
Died: 1973
Died: November 16
Anglican Priest
Author
Dramaturge
Musician
Philosopher
Theologian
Videographer
Writer
Kent
England
Talent
Preparing
Education
Showing
Alive
Skill
Future
Enjoyment
Energy
Entire
Art
Skills
Littles
Capacity
Little
Instead
Deprived

More quotes by Alan Watts

Image
But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.
Alan Watts
Image
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
Alan Watts
Image
The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to clutch water in one's hands - the harder one grips, the faster it slips through one's fingers.
Alan Watts
Image
You are something that the whole world is doing just as when the sea has waves on it.
Alan Watts
Image
Zen... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
Alan Watts
Image
We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.
Alan Watts
Image
Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be
Alan Watts
Image
To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.
Alan Watts
Image
Truly great companies are built on ideals, not just deals.
Alan Watts
Image
Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.
Alan Watts
Image
We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.
Alan Watts
Image
A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts
Alan Watts
Image
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
Image
To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.
Alan Watts
Image
All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.
Alan Watts
Image
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
Alan Watts
Image
A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.
Alan Watts
Image
The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe. I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter.
Alan Watts
Image
Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.
Alan Watts
Image
I have no other self than the totality of the things of which I am aware.
Alan Watts