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.
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Other Alan Watts quotes:
We usually don't look. We overlook.
The difference between a baby and adult is that a baby believes in everything while the adult doubts everything. Babies also only tell the truth until they learn what a lie is.
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.
Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.
For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
