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
Alan Watts
Philosopher
Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Wikipedia
Born: January 6, 1915, Chislehurst, United Kingdom
Died: November 16, 1973, Druid Heights
Influenced: Robert Anton Wilson, Seraphim Rose, Monica Furlong
Influenced by: Marshall McLuhan, Carl Jung, Jiddu Krishnamurti
Quotes
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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