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The Essence Of Alan Watts

Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 - 16 November 1973) was a British-born philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United Stat

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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.”

— Alan Watts, amazon.com

Tagged: Secret of Life, play of life, Why So Serious?, Let It Flow, Inspirational

“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 an eternal now.”

— Alan Watts, amazon.com

Tagged: Future, Illusion, tomorrow, Concept, Time

“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 an eternal now.”

— Alan Watts, amazon.com

Tagged: Philosophy, Time

“On the one hand there is the real world and on the other there is a whole system of symbols about that world which we have in our minds. These are very very useful symbols, all civilization depends on them, but like all good things they have their disadvantages, and the principle disadvantage of sym…”

— Alan Watts, amazon.com

Tagged: Reality, Symbolism, meditation, Truth, Perception

“Most civilized people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it with the world as they think about it and talk about it and describe it.”

— Alan Watts, amazon.com

Tagged: Reality, Symbolism, meditation, Truth, Perception