Alan Watts quotes to expand your mind and live a meaningful life.

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"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

"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

"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."

— Alan Watts

"If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will 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."

— Alan Watts

"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun."

— Alan Watts

"There is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity."

— Alan Watts

"The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego."

— Alan Watts

"We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society."

— Alan Watts

"You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago."

— Alan Watts

"As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil."

— Alan Watts

"Life is not a problem to be solved, nor a question to be answered. Life is a mystery to be experienced."

— Alan Watts

My all-time favorite Alan Watts quotes on:

- The Meaning of Life & The Art of Living
- Ego, Anxiety, & Insecurity
- Knowing Yourself
- Busyness, Slowing Down, & Presence
- Paradoxes https://www.sloww.co/alan-watts-quotes/