Wisdom Quote by Alan Watts — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”

“The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.”

“No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”

“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.”

“The menu is not the meal.”

“Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated”

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”

“Gdmng. Here is a powerful truth we saw during Diwali: We don’t wait for the government, friends or family to illuminate the entire city. Instead, we lit our corner, our neighbor lit theirs & that’s how the whole city became radiant.”

“You Who'd be Wise" from "Ben Mishle" written sometime between 1013 and 1050 C.E.”

“When it isn’t possible to attack what is said, they attack the one who said it.”

“I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.”

“truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”