Reads tagged with “Alan Watts”
The Wisdom of Water: Alan Watts on the Ocean and the Meaning of Life
Alan Watts on Love, the Meaning of Freedom, and the Only Real Antidote to Fear
“You cannot think simultaneously about listening to the waves and whether you are enjoying listening to the waves.”
Alan Watts on Our Search for Meaning and the Antidote to Our Existential Loneliness
“If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so… The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.”
Sense of Nonsense: Alan Watts on How We Find Meaning by Surrendering to Meaninglessness
“It is in this kind of meaninglessness that we come to the profoundest meaning.”
Self-Refinement Through the Wisdom of the Ages: New Year’s Resolutions from Some of Humanity’s Greatest Minds
Enduring ideas for personal refinement from Seneca, Thoreau, Virginia Woolf, Carl Sagan, Alan Watts, Emerson, Bruce Lee, Maya Angelou, and more.
How to Recover Your “Human-Heartedness”: Alan Watts on the Confucian Concept of Jen
“Trust in human nature is acceptance of the good-and-bad of it, and it is hard to trust those who do not admit their own weakness.”
Inner Sanity Amid World Chaos: The Young Alan Watts on What Makes the Human Struggle Bearable, in a Touching Letter to His Parents
From the abyss of WWII, an elevating reminder that we each contain a universe within that contributes to the universe without.
The Yin-Yang of Fortune and Misfortune: Alan Watts on the Art of Learning Not to Think in Terms of Gain and Loss
“The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity, and it’s really impossible to tell whether anything that happens in it is good or bad.”
Alan Watts on What Reality Is and How to Become What You Are
“Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others.”
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