Skip to content

Realizing Quote by Alan Watts

“The question is not what I should do in the…” quote by Alan Watts — Download Open image

“The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings)

Realizing Right now Should Time

More by Alan Watts

“The self-conscious feedback mechanism of the cortex allows us the hallucination that we are two souls in one body -a rational soul and an…

Image

The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clutch water in…

Image

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Image

If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall…

Image

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

Image

The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.

Image

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity,…

Image

Everything is perpetually becoming new.

Image

The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to…

Image

“As you make more and more powerful microscopic instruments, the universe has to get smaller and smaller in order to escape the investigation. Just…

Image

We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the…

Image

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

Image

Explore all 460 Alan Watts quotes

More Realizing quotes

People don't always realize that a record is forever. It'll always be there under your name. You've got to be certain that it's right.

Image

It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a…

Image

Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get…

Image

Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van…

Image

The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the…

Image

A lot of people say they are dyslexic; some have to realize that they are just stupid.

Image

When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the…

Image

With the realization of God comes all power. If the little wave knew that behind it is the great ocean, it could say, "I…

Paramahansa Yogananda

Image

It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in.

Image

You want to remain hungry and stay in a good place as a competitor; at the same time, you want to be confident but…

Image

Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.

Oswald Chambers

Image

We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize…

Image

Browse all 8,116 Realizing quotes