INSPIRATIONAL MOTIVATION ALAN WATTS QUOTES

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

“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.”

“The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.”

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.”

“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”

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

“If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you’ll 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.”

“But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.”

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

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

“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.” QUOTES ABOUT HYPOCRITES GOING TO CHURCH

“We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own.”

“The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.”

“It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.”

“But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.”

“I owe my solitude to other people.”

“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.”

“We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.”

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

“The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.”

“But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.”