Alan Watts Quotes

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

What I've learnt is to be in the now. It's something my mum has always said to me, and when I read a book called 'The Power of Now' by Eckhart Tolle, I realised just how important it is.

What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment.

God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking.

Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel.

You don't have to believe anything, adopt a dogma in order to learn how to meditate.

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.

I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.

The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.

When you master the art of being fully awake to this moment, you bestow a precious gift on your soul - the experience of love. Being present is the art of the soul.

I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

To be awake is to be fully present, no noise, just you and God. Most of us only have seconds of full consciousness. To live in a state of Samadhi - that's what we're here for.

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

My spiritual practice reminds me of what's really real, what's really hood.

Don't think too hard. Just be present, and things will reveal themselves.

At the Cruiserweight Classic finale, I said... I don't know if people had looked it up, or if they had heard it before, but it was an old Zen proverb. 'Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood, carry water.' It can be interpreted a lot of ways, but for the most part it's about staying in the moment.

Go deep into meditation. and be meditation I mean silence, awareness, witnessing. You can meditate any time of the day, you can meditate working, walking, doing things. Meditation is not something separate from life; it should not be separate, otherwise it remains a little artificial. Meditation should be spread all over life. You should walk in meditation, you should sit in meditation; that means silently, fully aware. Slowly slowly it becomes your very flavour, then the bridge is created.

Zen is everywhere.... But for you, Zen is right here.

The real meditation is how you live your life.

Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are making or doing something special—and then you will be special.

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.

Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.