Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience.
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 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.
We are, therefore, out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is.
The question “what shall we do about it” is only asked by those who do not understand the problem.
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.