Alan Watts Quotes

Since 2005, I have been on a steadfast journey inward as a self-proclaimed Spirit Junkie. And I've never looked back.

There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.

Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you're diving in and experiencing the Self, you're not closing yourself off from the world. You're strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world.

When I use the words 'inner journey', I simply mean that you have looked at one aspect of the journey in your life called 'outer', now try to look at another aspect of the journey called 'inner'. You have been running after money, now run after meditation. You have been running after power, now run after God. Both are running. Once you start running after meditation then one day I will tell you, 'Now drop meditation too. Now stop running.' And when you stop running then real meditation happens.

I don't want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they read and hear.

Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite 'I'. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.

The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.

True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.

Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That’s the ground, that’s what we study, that’s what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest.

Jon passes from Darkness to Light.

The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.

Whether you’re checked in or checked out, you’re always on a spiritual journey.

The way you get more is by having a daily spiritual practice.

I will work on myself, since the work on myself is going to be the highest thing I can do for it all, since I understand that as man up-levels his own consciousness, he sees more creative solutions to the problems that he's confronting.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet.

It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.

If we are to flourish as creative beings, if we are to grow into wholeness, we must bloom wherever we are planted.

Call the world if you please "the vale of soul-making." Then you will find out the use of the world.

God’s priority isn’t your destination but your development. God’s priority isn’t the dream but the dreamer.

Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.

They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well.

The more you establish quiet time and mediation as part of your daily discipline, the more you go through the rotation into mirror (dream) worlds.

The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.

Yoga is not just about living better. It is about exploring the very source of life.

When you do not know how to handle yourself, where is the need to produce another life.