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ColbySerpa: Don't Force Anything - Alan Watts

goshihatogopeso: You are under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago - Alan Watts

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ayyoz: If you aren’t falling asleep to Alan Watts podcasts what are you doing ???

rubot: i always like when i am right in the middle of an alan watts video on the nature of time and being and the purpose of being alive, and the mawkish music is swelling and it slam cuts to an ad for a crypto-trading app.

hpaxxiii: "A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So, he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion." - Alan Watts

MetteKjaer7: The Harder You Look, The Less You'll See - Alan Watts' Profound Revelation

HATTIEL65356715: Insecurity is the ultimate weapon against anxiety. As long as you are in control of your own thoughts and feelings, you can avoid letting anxiety control your life. The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts is the perfect book to help you achieve this goal.

BurnkidV: Alan Watts speaking on origins of religion - A thought provoking video

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El_Seventeeno: No Wrong Feelings-Alan Watts

zarandillo: Alan Watts: Don’t Think Too “A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So, he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusions. By thoughts, I mean specifically, chatter in the skull."

ChikuChill: The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away. - Alan Watts "Self-awareness," by Manolis Stratakis

simplewaters: “A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts." - Alan Watts $XEN

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

B0bbyb00m: Listening to Alan Watts lectures, will really give you a deeper perspective of how life works

EllisTheGuru: “Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.” – Alan Watts

InfiDale3476: What’s the purpose of dancing? What’s the goal? Or can you just enjoy the dance? Sometimes the purpose of the dance is just to enjoy the dance. That’s how I feel about life. (Shout out Alan Watts!)

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ka_boom87: Alan Watts speaking on origins of religion - A thought provoking video

cinda_yoga: ❍ Alan Watts: Don’t Think Too Much “…So, he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusions. By thoughts, I mean specifically, chatter in the skull…  

GeorgieCooper89: Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know. — Alan Watts

TrainingMindful: “Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.” ~ Alan Watts

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colesjoshua1: Stop Trying to Get It And You'll Have It - Alan Watts on Life's Meaning

colesjoshua1: Alan Watts ~ Trusting The Pattern Of The Universe

virginialalbert: You never know what will be the consequence of the misfortune; or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.” - Alan Watts

Tabassoem: You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. ~ Alan Watts

sovereignsaxon: “Trying to get rid of your ego is the biggest ego trip going” — Alan Watts

GreetingIdeas: Deeply profound and wisdom bearing zen quotes collection from spiritual thinkers of east and West including Buddha, Eckhart Tolle, Osho, and Alan Watts…

benlucier: I love listening to philosophy lectures from the late Alan Watts, although the audio quality is sometimes not great. Seems to be a good use case for using AI to re-create Alan's voice from his lecture transcripts.

ChikuChill: Alan Watts on fearing Death as analogous to winter: That the winter season, when the leaves fall and the snow comes, is some kind of defeat, something which we should hold out against. No. Winter is part of the natural course of events. No winter, no summer. No cold, no heat.

MaxKing_pt: Alan watts practiced walking meditation, travelled to zen temples in Japan, was an ‘unrepentant sensualist.’ “I prefer the more active Zen of walking meditation, archery, t’ai-chi exercises, mantra-chanting, practicing chinese calligraphy, tea ceremony, swimming, and cooking.”

DirtyBird121971: Alan Watts People ! Good stuff Here.

SanDiegoEbikes: Be awesome today. Maye the force... Don't Force Anything - Alan Watts

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life_of_ccb: “Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.” ― Alan Watts

AnneTownsend007: My timeline is a mishmash of Alan Watts, dead pigs, insights about art & poetry, and reminders that the Catholic Church harbours, protects & enables child abusers, juxtaposed with a few chickpea falafel recipes. Love you all, but I'm going to bed early tonight ...

CarolinAramburo: You cannot teach an ego to be anything but egotistic, even though egos have the subtlest ways of pretending to be reformed. - Alan Watts

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SlowwCo: "The so-called outside world and the so-called inside world come together. They are a happening. Your thoughts are happening, just like the sounds going on outside and everything is simply a happening and all you’re doing is watching it." — Alan Watts "The meaning of life is…

CrankyPappy: in which he loses something of his own emptiness and loneliness. Yet the very violence of these political religions betrays the anxiety beneath them – for they are but men huddling together and shouting to give themselves courage in the dark. ~ Alan Watts

trev_schultz: A man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun- Alan Watts

cedricberry11: Alan Watts - Ego Death Will Save the World

cedricberry11: Alan Watts - What Is Reality?

Siempre420amor: Alan Watts tells us the truth about our reality.

CrankyPappy: Our age is no more insecure than any other. Poverty, disease, war, change, and death are nothing new. In the best of times “security” has never been more than temporary … ~ Alan Watts

HubbardJeff: Don't Force Anything - Alan Watts

KareemElBatrawy: "No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.” Alan Watts

MiladGhanbariFX: "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 W. Watts

buddyhuggins: Space Is Not Nothing, It's Everything - Alan Watts On What Lies Beyond

MorningCompass: Alan Watts and The Reasons for Meditation

drjacksontaylor: "One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious." - Alan W. Watts Anxiety, be it about a round of golf, a tennis match, losing weight, or what to do in the gym, is normal and should be embraced as such. It shows you care. We must harness it.

PositiveLifeMag: “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

SilverGreg78: Still one of my favorite Alan Watts clips

TheWisdomClock: 3PM "The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." -Alan Watts

DavidDurovy: What does it all mean?  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. - Alan Watts

GodBrahman: Alan Watts Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence

JosephHannan: If you ever require confirmation of Alan Watts’ premise that you are nothing, just fly economy on any major American airline.

rob_berg: "You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself." - Alan Watts

ChikuChill: To perceive that form reveals the void, and to see that the void reveals form, is the secret for the overcoming of death. To the extent that one is unaware of space, one is unaware of one's own eternity — it's the same thing! - Alan Watts Boris Pelcer | Reflection In Time

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matty_pace: “The reason you want to be better is the reason you’re not” - Alan Watts The path to hell is paved with good intention. Catering to self is essential, but driving the ego to new heights is detrimental. In order to breathe you need to let go of the trapped oxygen. Let go.

SelfMastery_HF: New video! Live A Balanced Life: Alan Watts

CoolUnderFire10: Live A Balanced Life: Alan Watts

benbencaro: You can't listen to an instrumental album these days without Alan Watts talking over it for some reason.

paul90926963: Alan Watts - You Can't Do It! From A Conversation with Myself, 1971

PhraNuntiyo: 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. ~Alan Watts

PhraNuntiyo: No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle. ~Alan Watts

Eighthhouse: Don't Force Anything - Alan Watts

theposercamus: Alan Watts and I are friends if I had ever responded to his letters.

awarewolf1111: The most civilized people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it is with the world as they THINK about it and TALK about it and DESCRIBE it. - Alan Watts ✨ S I L E N C E ✨

aguiyiii: Rest in power Myles Munroe and Dr Amos Wilson and Alan Watts and Terence Mckenna

ruthvolta: “Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.” - Alan Watts <3

asyrafj: Read this for the first time right before uni in 2018. Still read this particular collection of essays every year or so: Alan Watts, become what you are

Thouotes: “Your soul is not inside your body. Your body is inside your soul. And what your soul is, is of course fundamentally, the total universe.” —Alan Watts

brycedimsdale: Be wary of that feeling where you believe you are right as long as you are hurting. - Alan Watts

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

venusianego: “When you go to reach for your dreams , your debt collectors come calling” Alan Watts

CaliKnows: Don't Force Anything - Alan Watts

Radha06761141: A man suffers only because he thinks serious about the things God meant only for fun -Alan watts

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TrainingMindful: “Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.” ~ Alan Watts

DjangoDegree: Alan Watts said “The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.” I was never the same.

TranscendCEO: “…furthermore, the unconscious mind is conscious, just not of itself”. -Alan Watts I think about this quote weekly

Siraxtae: "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." Alan Watts

KarenBa48975598: “Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.” –Alan Watts

heykzhai: 7. So what are some mindsets to move forward without regret? I think of the Alan Watts boat metaphor: You can see the trails the boat has left behind, but the wake doesn't control where the boat is headed next.

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

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LA90506753: A beautiful short on artists, artistic endeavors and the pursuit of creativity. Magic by Alan Watts

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NKULKARNI33: Good morning ☀️ Muddy water is cleared by leaving it alone - Alan Watts

alexholland1987: "Duality is always secretly unity" -Alan Watts

MeowImageBot: You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. - Alan Watts



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