Completely Engaged – Mar. 30, 2022
“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, The Essence of Alan Watts, p. 146
To Be Alive – Mar. 29, 2022
“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, from 1960 lecture “On the Meaning of Life”
Being Sensitive – Mar. 28, 2022
“The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.” ―Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity, p. 95
When Death Comes – Mar. 14, 2022
When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When It’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself […]
