I find great value in the talks and lectures of Alan Watts (1915-1973).

If you have 45 minutes, here is one of them.

Quotes from Alan Watts:

“You don’t aim and then shoot: it’s all one action. Not to decide and then act, but to act and decide all at once.”

” Live in such a way that nothing is advantage nor disadvantage.”

Practice fasting of the heart.

“Knowledge is much like the expansion of a flower from the stem to the bud.”

“I don’t know whether I was walking in the wind or the wind was walking on me.”

Most people live in assessment-hope living.

The invisibility of one’s head is the secret of being alive or Mushin = “no head” [Chinese]. If you want to see the inside of your head you keep your eyes open.

When your shoes are comfortable, do you feel them ? You don’t ! -That’s living.

And not you and “your life” -it’s the process. There’s nobody in the trap -it takes something trapped to make a trap.

Alan Watts