5 Mini-lessons I Learned From Alan Watts That Have Helped Me a Lot in Life
#4. “The greatest obstacle to objective knowledge is our subjective presence.”
The first time I heard Alan Watts, I didn’t understand a shit.
He said, “If you think you’re just inside your skin, you define yourself as a very complicated little curvature on the edge of that explosion. In space and in time. Billions of years ago, you were a big explosion, but now you’re a complicated human being.”
But something hypnotic in his voice resonated with my heart and calmed it. So I began to listen to Alan like one who puts on a meditation for sleep.
Then I started reading his books, and even though I still didn’t understand shit, something magical happened: some phrases stayed in my subconscious and came to my mind whenever life put me in a difficult situation.
I started to write down those phrases and the mini-lessons I extracted from them to keep a record in an old notebook.
And today, I want to share five with you.
1. Muddy water cleans itself better — Alan Watts (The Way of Zen)
Give time to time.
