Stop Trying to Get It And You'll Have It - Alan Watts on Life's Meaning
An inspirational and profound speech on a life of meaning by Alan Watts. Original Audio sourced from: “Alan Watts - Sense of Nonsense"
Speaker: Alan Watts
“Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever….”
- Alan Watts. (1915 - 1973)
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T&H Inspiration is on a mission to share inspiring wisdom. The goal is to have you pause, think, and reflect. Many of our videos revolve around the extraordinary teachings of Alan Watts that we produce with permission from the Alan Watts Electronic University.
T&H also films and releases original interviews with iconic people who have experienced successes, while also persevering through life's highs and lows. We look forward to sharing more of these perspectives and insights.
Our hope with these videos is to push your thinking. As Alan Watts said “No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.” - Alan Watts.
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Listening to Alan Watts with this old radio quality is my therapy
@RachelJ77
Жыл бұрын
Same 💜💜💜
@b-dogs1038
Жыл бұрын
Yes, he had such insight, understanding from a more real time. We’re in such a fast paced inhuman World now. Sad. *Thank God we have his recordings🙏
@ZandernotXanderrr
Жыл бұрын
Same but also real professional therapy is good for any and everybody✌️
@dartanianbyrd7066
Жыл бұрын
Yes it does 🙂
@zandrokos
Жыл бұрын
It is for me too. Lately it is the only thing keeping me sane.
Like an old dog, who no longer chases its tail, not because it is old and tired but because it finally understands that it is a part of it’s whole self and there’s no use in chasing that which it already has. So long as you seek, you will not find because that thing you are seeking, which always seems to be changing and eluding you, is you 🙏
@MaxumKornilov
Жыл бұрын
That was beautifully put.
@iafffirechic
Жыл бұрын
Well put! 💚
@irenebianchi906
Жыл бұрын
What you want also wants you 😊
@irenebianchi906
Жыл бұрын
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder...
@dont.ripfuller6587
Жыл бұрын
But for the incessant stinging irritation of the flea, would I stop running in circles and lay down quietly...
The key of life is just to flow.... dont get stuck, dont stop, dont overthink, let it be. Once you got detained and you start thinking and doing nothing and isolate yourself and not interacting with life, you blew it.
@dwightschrute7021
11 ай бұрын
Thank you. I needed to hear this. I've been stuck for a while now. Time to get back into the stream of life.
@johnnyofthesticks7260
11 ай бұрын
@@dwightschrute7021 it all depends on you. Nobodys stopping you. No one is impeding you to go on with your life. Its all in your head.
I like to listen to Alan Watts when I feel lost.
Listening to Alan watts will change the way you look at the world and humanity
@ZandernotXanderrr
Жыл бұрын
Learning will do that to ya
If you are ever in a low place, just listen to this man.....please ❤
Makes me think to "By holding his breath, he loses it. By letting it go he finds it" -Alan Watts
He has the perfect combination of spiritual wisdom, humor, eloquence, poeticism, a strong speaking voice, and an English accent which all make him very listenable.
I so needed to hear Allen talk tonight. I feel rattled his thoughts and voice bring me calm and peace. Be blessed
@Mr.B197
Жыл бұрын
His voice is peace itself
@zenobiadecrespin7561
Жыл бұрын
@@Mr.B197 couldn't agree more
@michaelmoran2691
Жыл бұрын
@@gingerpeachy3044 Does that matter ☘️
@David_Michael_Perez
Жыл бұрын
love who? u. i love u
@marcust478
Жыл бұрын
I thought it happened only to me cause I never read such comments. Only listening to his voice brings peace and tranquility, regardless of what he'll say.
This man literally saved my life 😪 thank you Alan.
@trevordoolan5011
Жыл бұрын
He's saving what's left of mine too... .
@asc3ndantone
Жыл бұрын
@@trevordoolan5011 I hear ya man. Alan watts is a bright light in this dark dark world.
@aarondavid5866
Жыл бұрын
literally as in not really
@aarongottfried5595
Жыл бұрын
@@asc3ndantone im sure music saved your life too. Stfu. Liar
@celiaa2006
Жыл бұрын
@@trevordoolan5011 what is left of yours is necessary and no less valuable than anyone else's. You are significant because you are here. We all are.
Searching for enlightenment is the problem. Look around you embrace where you are, where you're going. Smell,touch see,hear ,taste ,feel. The journey is it, not clamouring for it..
I don't comment much but I just want to say this channel really helps me make sense of life. Thank you ❤️
The now... the only thing there ever is...Thank you for sharing this.
He’s always been my therapist so thankful for him
@stonearecool2645
Жыл бұрын
your dead therapist lol
A very rare recording in my opinion
Before I think it .. I already know it is so and without thinking about it again I have it
The soothing voice of reason, we are not living the journey but observing or witnessing it
I was angry at first, now I am beginning to accept the truth; what I have known my whole life.
@celiaa2006
Жыл бұрын
Same. It's scary yet liberating.
@sullenstudent48
Жыл бұрын
@@celiaa2006 I am learning to keep my beliefs to myself because the feedback I have been getting is not good. People hate the truth, it seems
@stonearecool2645
Жыл бұрын
@@sullenstudent48 lol i all ready know what your gonna say its normal
You are reading this because I am you and you are me . PERIOD!
@TomDoesUtube
Жыл бұрын
Amen Beother
@chrisbunka
Жыл бұрын
Are you the Autumn Wind?
@raidernation4696
Жыл бұрын
@@chrisbunka WE ARE EVERYTHING!
@raidernation4696
Жыл бұрын
@@chrisbunka WE ARE EVERYTHING!
@chrisbunka
Жыл бұрын
Okay, then this means we’re all Jimmy Garoppolo now.
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change..
Thank you Alan Watts ❤️
wow! T&H... so perfect!
Brilliant. So many answers in the simplest of words. He just helped me make sense of myself
I used to listen to Alan Watts on the radio in the nineteen sixties when I was a kid. I'm glad I found him again 👍.
I always love listening to Alan speak, but this video's video production and audio quality were top notch. Thank you so much for making the time to create this for the world to experience.
💜♾🌟Alan Watts 🌟♾💜 So Thankful to have grown up listening to you! So Much Appreciation to find your voice, immortal on the inter web …🥰
Significance must be satisfying as is, like music or photography. Significance is state of mind. Significance of the world is the world, what's going on now, fulfilling in itself. Dance in a ballroom has no end. Stones, trees, water, and stars are hallelujah. Glorious nonsense is the heart of the world. Thanks Alan. 23 march 2023.🐼🐘🍺🐦🌛💰🐼🌴🌹🍺👍👍
Oh my this was beautiful 😍
Profound 🙏❤️
the perfect voice of reason and wisdom 🙏❤🙏
Alan Watts ist einfach nur... Mega 🙏
Your editing, score and visuals are the best Alan Watts speeches created. Thank you. 😊
Beautiful. Thank you 🙏
Alan Watts just has a way of putting everything in perspective.
Beautiful
Beautiful,it's amazing to listen to him❤❤❤
I believe Alan is God’s gift for us who watch this video
@stonearecool2645
Жыл бұрын
god isn't real
Best dude....kinda ever. ☝️🕉❤🤘🏿
I wish I knew this stuff when I was younger. Life is meaningless as you get older and I wish I knew that my younger years were what life was all about before they were gone….
@theotherguy5516
Жыл бұрын
Your younger years weren't what life was all about; our culture makes a fetish of youth and you've fallen into that trapdoor. If we're lucky, we spend more time outside of youth than as a youth -- do what Mr Watts always argues and enjoy life.
@mannutdutd
Жыл бұрын
You are infinite, so still very young in the grand scheme, enjoy and apply the knowledge now
@mannutdutd
Жыл бұрын
Additionally, not knowing this stuff is essential to being able to know it
@brettlaufer2936
Жыл бұрын
All that matters is what you are discovering within your life now. That is all in the past; the focus of your life is the present moment. We didn’t come into the world we came out of it. Don’t feel like you need to discover these things at a certain time in your life. Some people never discover what life is all about. Your life now is what truly matters and despite growing older what better time to discover the true importance of life. These concepts by Alan watts have really helped me understand the world and through the experiences I’ve recently had I feel truly connected with everything but it is still hard when society has a certain view on life. Live your life how you want to live it. We can get so caught up in the little tedious things of life. Life is so special
One of the best videos I've seen from Alan Watts. Just lovely. The "meaning ^^" and the bare sound of his voice and the images. Great work. Great artistry. Thank you
Wow Alan Walt’s like Dr Wayne D and soooo many knowledgeable human it’s just wonderful exactly like healing when you lesson Excellent and magnificent ❤⭐️so true why we have to control things
i loved the 1st half. things are beautifull as themselves and it is only when we pay attention that we can actually see how beautifull even the mundane can be.
This is wonderful. You are wonderful. And I'm thankful.
@rezanasiri6941
Жыл бұрын
You cant find this wonderful if you're not wonderful yourself
@busybecomingmyself
Жыл бұрын
@@rezanasiri6941 this is also true
anyone else sitting at their computer after watching a few of his videos in a complete existential crisis-peace?
@stonearecool2645
Жыл бұрын
not really
@ziaredruby29
Жыл бұрын
Me. Yes
Facing my end soon, lost all hope for a future I once hoped to share. Music can make you feel madlifted, invincible, untouchable, it can set you free for those precious minutes and leave images and feelings long after it is over and silence returns. I hold on to those images and feelings to try carry them over to the other side, to share like future hope with my mum, dad, brother and friends lost. I love everyone and everything and can but wish you all the best fighting chance to survive and finally share your futures too. Bless you readers.
@gkilla4964
Жыл бұрын
hope ur okay fellow.
@breakit46
Жыл бұрын
@@gkilla4964 Thanks, I hope you are too.
@OnlyThisMoment
Жыл бұрын
I don’t know you but I love you and others you don’t know love you. We are always with you, even if you can’t feel us. We are with you, we have always been with you and will continue to be. You are not alone 💛🙏
@breakit46
Жыл бұрын
@@OnlyThisMoment Much love
@celiaa2006
Жыл бұрын
The end is soon for us all. In the grand scheme of things even 100 years is not long. If you are living right now, you are just as necessary to the fabric of what we call life as anyone/anything else. The purpose of life is love. And love exists in every thing and everyone. You don't need to change anything if you can just understand this. It will fall into place naturally.
There's a whole lot of beautiful people in this video.
Alan Watts ❤
Beautiful works as always, i love the way you keep presenting these great teachings.
Such beautiful words that touches the mind and soul, love hearing Alan, thank you 🙏🏼
“The meaning to life is life it’s self”
I am starting to get into Alan - helpful to me
Thanks cosmic dad
Poetic speaker
Thank you Alan. Thank you T & H. Magnificent.
Very nice, so true.
Beautiful video and words! 🙏
Another amazing video!
Wonderful
I'm glad you're till making these
You know, i'm not saying that i'm special or condescending or whatnot, but when you can relate to deeper things like this and you somehow understand, having relationship or socializing is hard because you see through their facades and you can't stand shallowness. You would often hear them say things that you know they don't fully understand. Edit: or do i even understand?
@delanmorstik7619
Жыл бұрын
The thing is, you learn to enjoy that facade. Life is like a movie. Everyone plays a role. Those who do not understand that are fools. But those who understand it and suffer because of it are even bigger fools. Once you see everything is a theater you will naturally feel the need to believe it is real. Juat like when you go to watch a movie, you feel happy only if you completely focus on the movie. Then it becomes reality. Only then you truly enjoy the movie. So the trick is to be aware, but enjoying it as if you are not aware.
@theloneindividual
Жыл бұрын
@@delanmorstik7619 Interesting line of thought. Indeed, we humans are accustomed to living in stories, after all it was our stories that we told ourselves that have brought us so far as a global civilisation.
@arrow1042
Жыл бұрын
@@theloneindividual those words are also from Alan Watts
@theloneindividual
Жыл бұрын
@@arrow1042 I am still to look more into Alan Watts' philosophy. Thus I didn't know this idea was also formulated by him, however, I encountered it in Yuval Noah Harari's books.
This video is so beautiful thank you 💕
Life meaning is Loving yourself, loving others, and loving All creation for adaption and survival, and Loving is the highest vibration in our Universe....
So good...👍
Thank you!
I’m going to need an Alan Watts jazz album
Wonderful ❤
I’m shook. It brought me so many insights to me as a musician. Thank you for the video
Wow this video was really well done. Congrats and keep it up, we love Alan Watts speech videos
I AM THAT I AM
Great video. Music fits perfectly!!!
he's describing the point of the movie "SOUL" - a classic
So counter intuitive to me,.... I always try hard for what I want.
gr8 editing
40 year old man, just retired from the Army! Do I start to pursue another career or just be a stay at home dad? I feel broken and I don’t have a mission anymore. Listening to this just makes me wonder what makes me happy in life
@enlargementunlimited5118
Жыл бұрын
Your mission now is your family, soldier. For years I tried to escape what was right in front of me...happiness.
Nice
Alan ,you old Hepcat 🐈⬛🙏🦉
Do not try. Do it. I quit trying to talk to ignorant people. Just quit trying. I have.
Music would be the chosen way to communicate. Sing the words.
Because it is satisfying that it is.
Y'all youtube video editors need to quit with the cringe background sounds. The man's speech is what people are here for.
@LunarMARAUDER
Жыл бұрын
bruh
It's easier to wait,,,it will come to you
Exactly....💜🙏😎
I'm going to stop hoping, wishing, dreaming that the music is removed from these videos. Let's just see what happens.
He is my root guru Arthur Whane in Dharma Bums used to listen to him on Thurs night on my way home from the PO on WFMU it was paired w/ Joe Frank
get well everbody 🥰🥰🥰 From south Australia , AuStraLIA 🥰🥰🥰
Dunia jangan dikejar nanti kabur...
@tradgedyandhope What songs were used for this?? They were so good!!
❤️ ❤❤
Your dog is all bark and no bite JC. You hear it going off the other night. Really pretty friendly. Don't worry, I won't hurt it, I love animals. The lights are blinding though. LoL
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LOL. Right on Brother ..yin/yang .. there's no difference .................
yea he really made such a great job of his own life didnt he
@Hiiyena
Жыл бұрын
He understood life. He got depressed about the ecological damage being done to this beautiful Earth and used alcohol to numb the pain.
Hello, can I transfer your video to China's domestic video platform? Because I am very interested in these and want to share with more people, not for commercial use, but just to let more people see such a good video!❤
6:00 to 8:20 Profound.
i ve been trying so hard to become a higher version of myself and its only making thing worse inside and out. from my music, skating, trading, non of it works out financially im almost ready to be an NPC paying bills i have hope but it just seems like god wants me to work a shit job and die alone lol i see 888 everyday and it hurts because nothing i do prospers
the music tells me how to feel because I'm too stupid to know without it
I don't have to practice to be an actor.... you already are.
Sean Miller I just Like To Enjoy Life 🧬💗😂🙏
The thought of life having no meaning does not bother me because it’s true for all will end and will not be remembered
@martinsvensson6884
Жыл бұрын
Noone knows
@LunarMARAUDER
Жыл бұрын
It does me
The meaning is to have Fun u never know when it your last day.
@johnnewborn629
Жыл бұрын
U got more days than most
@johnnewborn629
Жыл бұрын
Move move move
@johnnewborn629
Жыл бұрын
Why when they Win
@johnnewborn629
Жыл бұрын
They should move❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂