I am now 65. At a guess I reckon I have not worn a watch...for about 40 years. It was a conscious decision. Ditched TV and the "news" about 20 years ago. I live literally second by second. My blood pressure? That of a 25 year old. Energy? In abundance. Health? No problems at all. But, I am grateful. Always. Even for the smallest things.

@Ellie-rp8bh

10 ай бұрын

Same

@mechanicaltypewriteroperat9885

10 ай бұрын

@@Ellie-rp8bhWere you a trust fund baby or something?

@susans8093

10 ай бұрын

Same here at age 69. Ditched all of the trappings preached the first 25 years of life and once I let it all go and stopped living in a time that was never promised me, I truly began to live. No one is promised tomorrow and tomorrow will bring its own problems. Don’t invite the future, don’t live in the past. Be here now.

@kellymccance1962

10 ай бұрын

​@@mechanicaltypewriteroperat9885 no kidding! 😂

@douglasspringer1665

10 ай бұрын

Good for you, Martin. Can I call you kid? I'm 70 going pretty good everything, works pretty normal. Hang in there son.

The best memories in my life came while I was living in the moment, and the worst came when I worried about my future/legacy.

@verne51

8 ай бұрын

LOL legacy.

@organichuman

8 ай бұрын

​@@verne51A shame many now being born will never have one? Or maybe it is a good thing in many cases.

@tchkvsky

8 ай бұрын

Well, I hope you took a few minutes to plan for your retirement.

@tchkvsky

8 ай бұрын

@@organichuman One creates a legacy. It does not just happen. Good grief. Alan Watts is poison.

@connorcody1831

8 ай бұрын

So u did all this n then u accidently found a .mobile fone then you tube then allan..😅😅😅😅😅 yeah pull the other one..

When I was a kid, a day felt like a week. A week felt like a month. And a month felt like a year. When I graduated from high school, it reversed.

@lefa

7 ай бұрын

So true!

@chasefunk

7 ай бұрын

that's because time is relative not because it falls into line with something Alan said.

@saulescamilla3605

6 ай бұрын

My explanation to this is because since we are closer to the day we were born we are experiencing life, we can feel every moment, and in those moments we feel like it will never end. We never think about about distractions, we think about a day and become anxious for that day to get here like Christmas or summer vacation from school. As years pass we obviously get further away from the day we are born and we less and less feel in the moment. We are constantly distracted by getting things done on time and there’s never enough time. Things that never used to take up our time then, now becomes a life of constant maintenance. Something seems to always need fixing around whatever it may be and also we become ambitious. I feel ambition is the most harmful thing to a human and it has turned many people I know soulless. It’s make a person that what once a great person turn into a complete POS. They are always trying to get over people including friends and become greedy and corrupt. They become insatiable for success and nothing ever satisfies them no matter how far ahead they get in life and become unaware of the person they become. All for a future that was in their head that when that future came and finally have time, realized too late they truly never did anything with their life.

@chasefunk

6 ай бұрын

ambition is the most harmful thing to a human being?!?! i'd put cancer above that but you do mindless you. @@saulescamilla3605

@maryann7941

4 ай бұрын

I felt the exact same way...😔

I'm 42 this year, and i consider myself lucky to realise this when i was 27 years old. Quit my job, pursued my hobby. I consider myself retired ever since. Doing what i love from home, spending every single day with my wife and kids. When i first heard these lines from Alan Watts from a Volvo commercial, i went into tears realising i was so lucky being able to live every moment, doing what i love, spending all my time with my kids and living every day giving every bit of love to my family, always reminding them to cherish every single day as i wouldn't know which is the last day we see one another. i now cherish every single day. sometimes when we feel like bringing the kids for holiday, we just skip school. teachers were amazed we couldn't care much about their school results. we learn new things together with our children all the time, we chat with one another all the time. i'm so so so lucky to be able to do all these while still earning an honest income from my hobby. i was once unsure if this is the right way, but having heard alan's philosophical speech, i knew i'm on the right path every morning. and every morning i count myself lucky and cherished it just for waking up and see my loved ones.

@Farlig69

8 ай бұрын

All very well but how do you make enough money to survive & feed your family? Is that method of income available to the masses? These philosophies may be all very well but when 99% of the world runs on the working man being abused because he has little other choice in which he may be able to feed himself and his family, then what of it?

@marcuso2006

8 ай бұрын

​@@Farlig69+1 Following

@Bianchiboy

8 ай бұрын

Drivel, I bet. Although it would explain where you got the time to type in such a lengthy, boring comment.

@tchkvsky

8 ай бұрын

You are describing what amounts to work life balance. Not a big deal really. PS: try to give your kids some freedom. Do they have friends they can spend time with?

@codeninja1

8 ай бұрын

I will be 41 in a few months. Time passing by so fast. Stressed beyond belief. Not happy at work or at home. I want to make the change but too afraid to do it. What is it you do now for your hobby?

I've listened to countless hours of Alan Watts and I can honestly say that this is the best 10 mins I have ever heard him deliver.

@_BobaFett_

11 ай бұрын

I agree.

@felixfedre518

11 ай бұрын

Yes, his strength was in making observations about people and life rather than trying to answer, unanswerable, questions about God and eternity.

@DereK1995WiN

11 ай бұрын

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@lawrenceholden5716

10 ай бұрын

This is profound and so true.

@Peter-fs5jt

10 ай бұрын

I'll take that as an amazing endorsement Michael. Thank you for sprinkling the 5 stars so generously so we can partake of your experience

"You can't live at all, unless you can live fully Now"💯

@superhiker77

10 ай бұрын

I was recently able to understand this more than ever; it's huge when you do.

@francieafrica7306

10 ай бұрын

@@superhiker77 i agree 💯

@walterrojas2761

10 ай бұрын

Right now I’m taking a bowl of magnificent Mexican beans, just made tortillas and very spicy chiles: unbeatable way to enjoy the present.

@JuanThaSilva

10 ай бұрын

What does that mean?

@ken-mb5cp

10 ай бұрын

@@JuanThaSilva It means that time and space are a mental construct. A prison designed to keep you unaware of your true spirit which is always in the now. Who designed us? I don’t know.

No watch for 30 years , no face book etc-only watch You tube. Spend as much time as I can with my daughter( family) and enjoy simple pleasures like swimming and hiking. I gave up all my possessions , only needs . Feels so good.❤

@StrawPerson-xq9ko

8 ай бұрын

i am nearly there now. never been happier. massive respect too you.

@x13xmonkey

8 ай бұрын

@@StrawPerson-xq9ko and to you❤️

As a 49 year old man, I couldn’t agree more. I was just trying to tell a friend that I’ve reached the point where “I am who I am, I’m at where I’m at”.

@tjhicks3600

9 ай бұрын

nice quote

@noelalexisshaw-nas-noz5142

8 ай бұрын

And WE Can Go Far Beyond The BS Boundaries Of The Fake Ass Globe!

@secrets2youth

8 ай бұрын

Dave r ux in California

@thedigitalemotion

8 ай бұрын

Your not old a 49, life is just beginning!

@jamestemple5696

8 ай бұрын

Awesome quote! Couldn’t agree more or have said it any better! I am also at that point! I am who I am, and I am we’re I’m at… 👍

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” ― Robert Brault

@ianstuart5660

8 ай бұрын

You do?

@KajunMs39

8 ай бұрын

​@ianstuart5660 Yes. Enjoy life,grandchildren and Family. I take nothing for granted.

@ianstuart5660

8 ай бұрын

@KajunMs39 Thanks, so glad to hear that!

@KajunMs39

8 ай бұрын

@@ianstuart5660 what about yourself?

@ianstuart5660

8 ай бұрын

@KajunMs39 Very much enjoy the little things. No grandkids yet, but could happen at any time!

I never forget this piece of Alan's. I'm 56 and now am reaching for retirement. "It's going to be great! I'm finally going to enjoy my life!" OMG, I've said that all my life. Time and time again. Right now is just time to muddle through to get to that great point. I still can't get it through my head that today is as good as my life will ever be. If I don't have peace now, don't have happiness, contentment now, I never will.

@chucktplatt

8 ай бұрын

A year younger myself, and I’ve always said “ if you don’t have peace of mind,you have nothing.”

@tchkvsky

8 ай бұрын

I can assure you that you are wrong. I retired 5 years ago and there is NO QUESTION that my life changed for the better. How can it not, when 3 hours of your day that you used to spend commuting to the office is now completely stress free? When 8 hours of the day, once spent engaged in mind-numbing bureaucratic gymnastics, is now yours to do with what you want? You will have OPTIONS when you retire, which you do not have at the moment.

@petesfeeder

8 ай бұрын

I'm 49 and retired. Not like most think of retirement but I certainly don't have a job. Leaving the demanding conflict of 'societal time' has been the best thing I have ever experienced. We live feral. Doing what is needed but when it fits our lives. I encourage everyone to move towards this way. I believe it is our natural way of being. My wife and two children (home schooled) are engaged and thriving. I wish for you the happiness I enjoy not caring for markers of time. When I do find I need to know for societal interaction it's quite a laugh we share when we have to work out what day and month it is. My only regret is not realizing sooner. Be free Be well Much love

@tchkvsky

8 ай бұрын

@@petesfeeder You live "feral" yet you are posting comments on KZread. Even if you go to the public library and use the computer terminals there, you are using taxpayer funds to do so. That is not "living feral." That is living on welfare. Where do you get food for your family? At the local food donation bank or a religious charity? That's just pretending to "live feral." I also found amusing your notion of "doing what is needed but when it fits our lives" and advising the rest of us to do so. Sounds like either anarchy or nihilism to me. Alan Watts' insights are perfectly fine if one lives in a monastery where one's needs are taken care of from cradle to grave. But they don't apply in the real world, where interaction with other homo sapiens is mandatory. I hope your children are in good health and being cared for properly, assuming any part of your tale above is true.

@josephconsoli4128

8 ай бұрын

@@petesfeeder Thank you. Hands down retiring beats working at a job. The point really is that we are wise when we make a joyful time out of every stage in our lives. Not trudging through the weekdays trying to get them over with. There is where most of us make the mistake. I look back on my old jobs that I brought so much negativity and drama into and realize I could've just rolled with it, finding it almost amusing! What's ahead might be great, but the present is where we need to find greatness.

"You are always living for somewhere you aren't" ..........this video is bang on, so true

@pencilrussell4711

7 ай бұрын

Great, Very true

@thaconqueror777

Ай бұрын

Right 🔥🔥🔥

We have clocks,we don't have time- RIP George Carlin

@johnroche5461

10 ай бұрын

Exactly

@mountaintruth1deeds533

6 ай бұрын

🎯

I spent years going through crippling addiction and the period after with “I want my old life back” as my mantra. I yearned and yearned for things to go back exactly as they were. It was only when I surrendered to the reality that it would never happen that I ended up with a life 10 times better than it ever was. If you spend all your time craving what you think your life should be, you’ll never get to experience the beauty in what it’s SUPPOSED to be. And always remember, in the immortal words of Bill Hicks, “it’s just a ride”.

@Nick_B_Bad

10 ай бұрын

I can totally relate, once I finally beat that H addiction after 2 years of feeling sorry for myself and thinking every day I should just pull the trigger I got a job. Once I lifted myself up my life took off in an upward trajectory and I bounced back higher and better than I ever thought even before I went down the addiction road.

@johndymond4596

10 ай бұрын

Same i have almost 4 years now. But at the start when I was still in the rehab phases I listened to a lot of alan wats . he really made me take a look at myself. My favorite is the joker

@derikjackson7359

9 ай бұрын

That was awesome that makes total sense

@user-hv5tj1xi9z

9 ай бұрын

Hits home. I'm battling methamphetamine addiction after 10+ years of sobriety. In and out of jail. Getting divorced. Possibly going to prison. Trying to convince myself every day why I'm worth more than a bullet to the head. Sometimes I worry I'm going to run out of reasons and end up eating that bullet.

@sandyzeatyahoo

9 ай бұрын

100% 👍

There are few men in this world, which I can listen to and learn from immediately. Alan Watts is one of those men, even after he's long gone, I'm still learning from his speeches.

@tchkvsky

8 ай бұрын

Ignore Alan Watts and prepare for your old age. There, you can add me to the list of men you learn from immediately.

@JesusBichito99

8 ай бұрын

Yall love men 💀 bunch of bottoms

@aarongottfried5595

7 ай бұрын

you cant learn shit from a speech you just take in words that you understand on some level . you have to follow and find consciousnessto find better levels of understanding

@MrAirblown2009

7 ай бұрын

@@aarongottfried5595 Thanks for that, on whatever level you wanna take it.

@MadonnaGrogan

3 ай бұрын

Truth lingers😻🥳

When I watched my father die a slow horrible death. I realised these words about living in the now, and what I want to do now. This was quite profound

@mannysense3703

3 ай бұрын

You created that environment.

Take care of your body, it's the only place you have to live; meditate daily, it will give you inner peace.

@suzieque4222

2 ай бұрын

AMEN TO THAT 🙂

Forget your age. Forget days weeks years etc. Yesterday is gone and tomorrow never comes. Dont waste the "time" you do have. Live for today. Be grateful for what you do have and not what you might or might not have. We are so distracted. Controlled...

@chasefunk

7 ай бұрын

it's called dementia

@Rizik1986

7 ай бұрын

@@chasefunk Can you will yourself into dementia? You aren't as clever as you think you are. Its called arrogance.

@markkouros6628

6 ай бұрын

Great reply With a bit of Dio...

I heard someone say, "I wish fall would hurry up and get here." And it hit me. She's wishing away 2 months of her life. Im 55 and i know my time is on the down hill slope. Its just a matter of how and when. I have began to realize how wasteful i have been. But also, when and where I've been blessed or spared. And time is still ticking by...

@jlynnc9559

9 ай бұрын

My mother would always say to us, “Don’t wish your life away”. No truer words.

Very wise! Summarizing, I'd say that we spend all our lifetime and energy trying to build our future, instead of building our present!

One of the first things my AA sponsor told me was “all we truly have is today, we cannot alter yesterday, nor predict tomorrow.” I’ll have 11 years of sobriety in a week and I live by those words.

@hexxan007

9 ай бұрын

Congrats! That is HUGE!!!! ❤❤❤ !!!

@janedoh123

9 ай бұрын

well done they call yesterday the past because it’s gone tomorrow the future and unknown but now it’s today is the present because it truly is a gift

@JasmineR1993

9 ай бұрын

Proud of you!❤

@deepwoods_dave7368

9 ай бұрын

@@JasmineR1993 thank you

@deepwoods_dave7368

9 ай бұрын

@@hexxan007 thanks

His voice is even more therapeutic than his words.. Alan freaking Watts

This is true ! Most of us was happy when they was kids ,we know what was time but we didnt care for it and we stayed in the present !

@tchkvsky

8 ай бұрын

But we grow up and are no longer children. If you want that sort of life where you never grow up, check into a monastery.

@carlsalvato8530

8 ай бұрын

I know what you mean.

@1984veritas1

7 ай бұрын

Jesus said.... The Kingdom of Heaven is within you..... and....Verily I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven... Children are content until they grow and fall. Buy them an expensive gift and don't be surprised to see them play more with and enjoy more the cardboard box which it came in than the gift itself for example. Adults complain that the weather is bad when heavy raining.... those same adults as children wanted to run out in that rain and would have a great time jumping in puddles and being soaked etc

@chasefunk

7 ай бұрын

this is true because most of us where happy when we where kids?! newsflash: only kids and animals live in the present if you would like to be one of them, by all means live in the moment.

I would like to thank Mark Watts for preserving and promoting his fathers work. Well done!

Most of these clips were compiled fairly early on in Watt’s life. It’s amazing because he lived quite a long time and never stopped learning and lecturing.

It's almost like how the line goes in the movie Ferris Beuller's Day Off: "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around every once in a while, you can miss it."

I've always remembered a quote by the Old-Hollywood actor W.C. Fields, "Success is looking at the direction everyone is running towards ― Turn and walk in the opposite direction". Take the necessary time to become who you were always meant to be; otherwise, life and society will define who you are for you. Wouldn't that be the definition of a waste of an entire lifetime ― Isn't it?

@chasefunk

7 ай бұрын

you can decide to be a bum for example

@spinglasshydra

7 ай бұрын

@@chasefunk How sagacious.... ???

We have to become aware. I'm younger than 40 and I've achieved it. Find your own way. Live the present in full awareness🖤

@chasefunk

7 ай бұрын

lol you have achieved becoming aware at younger than 40? congrats dude!!!

My story is long but ill just say this I had surgery almost died and my long distance girlfriend died when I was recovering from surgery I lost everything including myself but I discovered something very important When you love someone and that person makes you happy don't wait fight for what you love dont be afraid so you don't have to live in depression, regret Enjoy every second of your good times and learn from the bad times

Wishing I heard this 40 years ago. Thanks

“Always wanting the future”. I love that because ( for me) it was so true.

@chauncygardner123

10 ай бұрын

@Wolf Mage Thank you!🙏🏽

@passerby6168

10 ай бұрын

Love your name. Great movie.

@mechanicaltypewriteroperat9885

10 ай бұрын

Other people’s future or yours?

@zoneundertop

10 ай бұрын

Government is about tomorrow, same with weather reporting. Today is a statistical fact, logged & forgotten.

@_MMWWMM_

10 ай бұрын

How do you stop thinking like this though?

It's no exaggeration to say that this man changed my life.

It's not often I can listen to Alan Watts without a tear rolling down my face. God damn, he is brilliant. Hits so hard.

My only quibble, a very slight one, is that when I was very young in grade school, I lived very much moment by moment. I now look back with envy, compare to how I treated time illusion as discussed here. I'm now 67 and recently endured a small stroke, which was major enough. I need to concentrate on each day and not dread the future as I get older. 🤔

The universe woke me up on Saturday from the illusion of time. I am completely set free😊😊😊😊😊

I just turned 46. I don't know why, this year, but I cannot believe in a blink I am here, and at a stand still with life. I needed to hear this. I am so grateful I started listening

You can't live at all, unless you live fully now. Thanks Alan. 9 June 2023.🎯🔦🐧⛩🔬🦅🔍

This man understood the universe by doing no more than understanding himself,something that is not easy to do. He only mentioned time, that analogy can be applied to any topic that furnishes a "legal history" or fear/promises of the future, it ruins the in-between. Love this man ✌️

@chasefunk

7 ай бұрын

alan understood the universe? slow down there Thomas, it's healthy to fear or think of the future, just ask any bum on the street and they will tell you.

2 minutes in and that was the best words of wisdom I ever heard in my life.

@chasefunk

4 ай бұрын

you sound like you don't read

@ryanvandy1615

4 ай бұрын

@@chasefunkwhat’s the point of insulting Jen?

@ryanvandy1615

4 ай бұрын

@@chasefunkwhat’s the point of insulting Jen?

@chasefunk

4 ай бұрын

what's the point of defending her?@@ryanvandy1615

This needs a million views. Not even halfway through. A man's voice is only as good as his words.

Did you notice that in such a complicated and articulate train of thought, at 7:47 is the first and only time he uses a vocal thought pause "uhm" (or "ähm") - which today, we use so much because we don't have that full control over what we want to say? Incredible

@benayers8622

10 ай бұрын

So many words were manipulated to achieve this drugs/medicine is a prime example they should be defined identically but instead are used to lead people into lies and tie their subconscious in circles so that their overall logical computational ability becomes permanently limited believe me i was lucky to escape this and i wish everyone was as free as me

@ClaudiaMitchell-jn7fw

9 ай бұрын

Human.

@todaythebirds

8 ай бұрын

Good point. But, if I shouted at the screen "carrot!!!" does that mean I'm living in the moment??

Alan Watts pure genius 🙌👌

they call yesterday the past because it’s gone tomorrow the future and unknown but now it’s today is the present because it truly is a gift

This man was a prophet on some human level..💯

@iamthefiremanjj

10 ай бұрын

We are all the prophet

@Thomasisthekey

10 ай бұрын

@@iamthefiremanjj yes

@anhedonianepiphany5588

10 ай бұрын

Prophets are _usually_ human, of course. They also tend to be obsessed with future events, which is quite contrary to the sentiment expressed here.

@BMW-tr3nf

10 ай бұрын

What a wise man. Live for now. That is the future. Thank you .❤

@chad9455

8 ай бұрын

Prophets are also Godly men.

What a speech, again. Makes me think to "Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present." -Alan Watts

Dumping social media and seeking actual connections is the best thing you can do for your self.

I'm a combat Veteran. I guess that changed me to live in the present. I can now think in ways I never could have thought before.

@SarahMichelle777

10 ай бұрын

Thank you got your service. 🫡

@Mr.Storytime959

8 ай бұрын

living in the present still means u plan for the future tho right

@user-qo1fb2rt6g

7 ай бұрын

Thank you for your Service

My Life Feels like a Stand Still. Days feel like hours, Months Are like Seasons and Years are flying by and yet I am not aging. I'm almost 50 now and People still say I look 30. Sometimes 25 if I die my hair. But If I close my eyes. I can transmit myself to a Day in school in School perhaps. Remembering that day as though I was just there. All the time and all the motions. All the People. Me Playing with my transformers toys. What is time? If We can not travel it with our energy. Linear time is something that kepts us limited. If you do not limit yourself. You can Move through time.

Its taken me years to learn the pleasure of living in the now, now is the only reality, now you can do anything, immediately, there is no need to wait or to ponder, these things create depressions and anxieties, yesterday has gone, tomorrow may never come but the now is tangible, it exists, now!!! Facing death through cancer made me have to ignore tmrw by being too occupied today, it was the only and best way to remain calm, i survived and i've been left with this mindset, when i was better i could not undo these changes, they were a permanent new mindset, when trying to get back to my old self it upset me that i couldnt look at life the same way as before but now @ 30 yrs on its become the greatest gift i've ever recieved, i think of others first but do not ignore my own needs either, i've truly gained the motivation to enjoy every second of this existence, a happy accident i guess, from such a traumatic time came my salvation, a true love of life!!!

@elonever.2.071

5 ай бұрын

Everyone's awakening process is different. Mine came much late in life.

@user-fu4iw5dx3f

2 ай бұрын

@@elonever.2.071 obviously

I don't know how I found this channel but everything is true about this I'm 41 and this shit getting real

@jackshilshlack2820

4 ай бұрын

hi! and right from the start who/what do You think God/god would need to experience pleasure of any kind? a body???!!!

@joeymurdazalotmore6355

2 ай бұрын

I'm 44, and Allan watts words get real , fast, this left me slapped

This moment...goes on forever...

One of the best Alan Watts videos I've seen. Wow.

I'm 16 now and people who are old are sharing there experience of life and there is so much to learn from each comment , thank you for this eye-opening video.

@nathanielacton3768

5 ай бұрын

I'll give you my learning as my son is also 16. My advice is more of an observation of what I see, mostly from younger generations. If you seek achievement (yes, the opposite of Watts) there seems to be no time in history in which you can achieve more with as much ease as now. No, I'm not saying it's easy, and it never was. But the sheer number of people that have given up and shooting low is frankly incredible. My son is an ice hockey player. He rose to the top of the country on putting in a solid hour of effort per day. Tops. He is not a 'natural', he just put ins some effort on a consistent basis and absolutely blew away everyone around him, moved up, blew them away. In a few months he will be in Spain at the world championships every weekend he competes in some tournament flying around the US... and he was not even born there. For me, I just enjoyed computers when I was a kid. I taught myself to program 3-4 languages before I ever attended a class, and I ended up helping the teacher. I ended up in IT, and now pull in very solid cash as a consultant, I don't need money for happiness though, if my wealth doubled my life would not be any better. I don't even try to 'make' money. I take tests and certifications and don't even study. I can do this because I just enjoy the subject enough to learn it all naturally. I hit the gym each day and choose to live my life with discipline. Each evening I make computer games. Just like I did when I was 10. My 'advice' is not to do something because it'll make you money except to make sure that whatever you pick might actually do that(basically don't do something that'll give you student debt and never pay it off. Consider uni\college to be like a business investment. ). Whatever you do, enjoy it for what it is. Learn it backward for the sheer joy of it and hardly anyone will be able to follow you because you 'work too hard'. Remember the old saying, the journey, not the destination.

@Overlookedtooverbooked

4 ай бұрын

I love the comments ❤

We must ¹earn &it must never cause hardship to any other, not one 🏰 🌳 THAT MUCH I KNOW MOST CERTAIN ⚖️ 🐺 Amen

I've heard countless audio and visuals Alan Watts speeches and lectures but this one... So, I hear Alan Watts, and it's his voice it's like a father figure trying to give you some good advice on "Life"... I really heard this one. 🎉Well put together🌄

@MadonnaGrogan

3 ай бұрын

😻😻🥳😊😉

One of the most intelligent thinkers of our time.

@yankee2666

8 ай бұрын

You better read between the lines, pal.

@artsmart

8 ай бұрын

which means what?@@yankee2666

@chasefunk

7 ай бұрын

not by a longshot

Every single person on this planet needs to see this and think about it

Recently lost my wife. She was 35. Planned our future together. Seems as if so much planning and not as much 'in the moment' times. I miss her

One of my greatest fantasies in life is when I finally am able to never need to look at a clock and keep track of time again. A point in my life when time mean nothing and is irrelevant.

He was a brilliant man for his time. Things are always moving tho. Creating is fun. Changes and moving through precipices is good. There's always a spectrum of a flow. I try to incorporate my child self into the flow

Never in my life have I watched a video back to back. This is profound. It hit me so hard. As a people we walk heads pointed straight forward, we need to look to the left and right of us to enjoy the now.

Thank you for this video. I needed this. Those who are naturally awakening, need this. Thank you.

This video is so helpful. I have Autism and ADHD. I struggle with time even if I don't want too. And I feel like I could watch this every day and it would help every day. Thank you ❤ anyone else that's autistic and agrees? I'd appreciate any positivity in my life right now. No rush right?

@ClaudiaMitchell-jn7fw

9 ай бұрын

Go with the flow.😊

There have been times, in my youth, that I was living in the moment, fleeting moments

Living the present, and not worrying about the future truly fills you with energy. Especially 80 year olds still working at a supermarket! Wow! obviously they lived a great life in their twenties 😅

@earthangel_1862

6 ай бұрын

I live my spirit not by the flesh 💫🙌🙏💞

@Rahbinah

6 ай бұрын

You can live in the present and prepare for the future. You just shouldn't obsess over the past or future because all we really have is the NOW

The Weight and The Night They Drove 'Ol Dixie Down are two of my all time favorite songs. Vale Robbie and thank you!

You can't live at all unless you live fully now!!!

"in the middle of life" That great moment at the beginning of Dante's Inferno. Its a momentous occasion of clarity and understanding.

This man used his words and videos to become an immortal.

Most people get older when they age. Alan Watts got younger when he got wiser. May you rest in peace, soulful jester

All we have is right now...and it's always right now.

@_BobaFett_

11 ай бұрын

💯

@hardlines2635

10 ай бұрын

Their is no Now only the past and immediate future, you read this in the past.

@MaxMoon65

10 ай бұрын

@hardlines2635 yeah...but you wrote it in the here and now...

I wrote We Are Gods to share with people my belief that we are in control of what happens to us when we are present in the moment and we don't allow society and circumstances to distract us with false illusions ❤

@NineR--

9 ай бұрын

Where can I find this book?

I've gained more awareness and realizations from this one video than the hundreds of videos on "the now" and "the future" combined. This is the best explanation of why "now" is more important than any other reference to time. Thanks, True Meaning. And thanks, Alan Watts.

@joannagipson12

10 ай бұрын

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

@sijorojasjrchannel5340

9 ай бұрын

Yes , past is memory , history is memory , future is illusion , and only current present that shape those future , with action not with words and dream , by action to make the future reality , palling and doing it , not just planning and planning without any actual action , a physical action 👍🏻

@VictoriaThompson-xl4zy

8 ай бұрын

And this is why we call him a mystic.❤

You have to be strong. For yourself and others. They need you. We need you

I'd like to think out loud my thoughts and listening to this feels so right

I have never seen this man before but to me that just came across as intensely profound!

@VictoriaThompson-xl4zy

8 ай бұрын

You should check out his other speeches then. I highly recommend!

@chasefunk

7 ай бұрын

it seems profound but when looked at closer planning for the future, education, hard work is simply how you build a better tommorow, you can bargain with your future and it works. Alan fails to credit how hard work and planning can improve your future and further more (and this is just as important) how the lack of education or hardwork and planning can lead to a lack luster future. I think it's easy to be critical of society when all you do is study eastern philosophy at berkley and get high with your hippie buddies.

No one could've said it better. The truth can't be uttered any truer.

Going on 63 in Nov, my trick was to enjoy each moment when it occurred and never had ambition nor looked the future for anything. I've quite happily got on with my life, payed my way and am still employed. Live for today.

I bought a house and I haven't arrived I'm constantly thinking 30 years ahead, So grateful for video I need to slow down and enjoy day by day

What a wise man. Live in the now. That is the future. Thank you.❤

Live in the moment, live for the moment, ALWAYS Someone once told me, " if you want to make GOD laugh, make a plan ". Great video! Thank You 😊🙏 ☯️

@MatrixMaster777

11 ай бұрын

Great Comment, Thank You^^

@spinglasshydra

11 ай бұрын

My Mother always phrased it this way, "Do you know how to make God laugh? ― Tell him your plans." It's the same meaning, but if we decide to, 'not force anything in life' and then patentiants plays a huge role.

@chasefunk

7 ай бұрын

ya, you hear that kids?!?! don't plan for your future and you'll make God laugh. Probably because you'll be squeegeeing somebody's windshield for quarters on some God forsaken intersection while God says under His breath, Listen to what Alan watts said on life advice eh , heh heh heh. look at you now, living in the moment!

Alan Watts, Thank You For The Great You Are, Not Were, YOU ARE NOW FOREVER & ALWAYS, THANK YOU BROTHER INFINITELY FOR YOU!!!

Fascinating series… something of substance, thought. Wonderful. Unlike the majority of social media.

This was fantastic. Thank you for creating this for the world. ❤

@jaysheeze

7 ай бұрын

💯❤

@chasefunk

7 ай бұрын

you know he died in '73 right??!?!

The Power Of The Now by Eckhart Tolle is also in sync to this message, good confirmation for a contented life.

I was lucky enough to meet and hear Alan Watts. He had an glow about him. What a mind.

Alan watts is immortalized by his words

This is gold. Thank you for sharing it

Truth is infinite timeless and eternal.

AMAZING !! I myself am a Buddhist !❤🙏🏻

Very enlightening. Thanks for sharing your wisdom.

Living in th enow has been expressed to me in so many ways, but this is the first I've heard Alan Watts put it this way.

"The time in-between is just a dream" -Me

Only minutes in and my heart is warmed by the poetic way "what I know and live" is expressed in this video. What a blessing to live heaven on earth, simply by deciding to be uncontrolled and unbothered! Light, love, and truth to all!

I’m 50 , never had a job , been around the world many times , I think I see through the bs of school and work

I’m not bound by time I’m endless I’m eternal.

@tchkvsky

8 ай бұрын

LMAO, just wait till you get to be my age and wake up in the morning with aches and pains.

@nukima11

8 ай бұрын

​@@tchkvskywooosh

@TheBertieW

8 ай бұрын

@@tchkvsky But you woke up each morning so far, right?

@carlbrenda6518

7 ай бұрын

Ok Thanos....

@chasefunk

7 ай бұрын

and maybe, juuuuust maybe a lil dillusional.

I don’t believe that animals only live in the present. So many of them prepare for the future. Dogs and squirrels etc bury things that they can dig up in the future. Animals like elephants also take community trips back to where their loved ones have died, while rubbing their trunks over the bones. Animals certainly know there is a past and a future - they don’t just live in the present.

@susans8093

10 ай бұрын

Have you ever considered animals are hardwired to do certain things without understanding why? A Peregrine Falcon nests on extremely high craggy cliffs; when the chicks hatch and grow, they intuitively know not to walk off the edge of the cliff until they can fly. Squirrels always bury the nuts they can never find later but it doesn’t mean they think about the future.

@B_B_B_

10 ай бұрын

@@susans8093 What does perception of depth have to do with this? I’ll give you the answer… nothing. Your statement that squirrels “always” bury nuts they can “never” find is also completely wrong. Squirrels have an incredible ability to remember where they buried their nuts. They use spatial memory and landmarks to make a cognitive map of their storage spots. They also bury similar nuts in particular places and revisit their caches often to reinforce their memory and check their food. While it’s almost certain that squirrels do indeed forget some subset of the nuts that they bury over a nut-burying season, it’s not clear whether these are truly forgotten or simply abandoned in favor of those that are easier to recover. There is extensive evidence to show that many other animals understand the past and plan for the future. Elephants have a strong connection to their past and even engage in a form of mourning or paying homage to their deceased relatives. They are frequently observed to visit the bones of their dead relatives as a community. I have a rescue dog that used to cower whenever I went near him with a leather leash. I later discovered that his previous owner used to beat him with a leather belt. Are you still going to argue that he doesn’t understand the past?

@susans8093

10 ай бұрын

@@B_B_B_ For a simple question of consideration of something outside of your beliefs, you unleash your energy with this diatribe? Wow, who hurt you?

@B_B_B_

10 ай бұрын

@@susans8093You’re projecting your emotions onto me. As this is my area of expertise, I’ll educate you a little more about this: Projection is a defense mechanism where someone attributes their own unwanted thoughts or feelings onto someone else. In this situation, you felt upset but instead of acknowledging and dealing with your emotions, you projected them onto me and claimed that I’m the one who is upset. You clearly can’t handle even a mild debate. After being proven wrong and put in a checkmate, you completely evaded the topic of the debate and moved on to yet more drivel. If you can’t handle mild debates, then you shouldn’t start them and maybe avoid the internet. I wouldn’t recommend working with adults either.

@susans8093

10 ай бұрын

@@B_B_B_ oh for the love of God dude, give it a rest. You’re just not all that important in the larger scheme of things in life and it’s apparent your ego is certainly driving you. Have a nice life and please don’t respond again; you’re really not worth my time. And that’s not debatable.

Alan Watts will have you breezing thru with 0 stress...Love this guy!!!

@meself349

8 ай бұрын

He had quite a couple of unshakeable addictions in his own life though and addictions are usually a reaction to stress. So he certainly had some stressors himself. Had an open marriage and then went through a divorce. Etc. Maybe what you would call a "wounded healer".

This video reminds me of the saying "Take the time to smell the roses". Just yesterday I was 18 years old graduating from high school, I turn 59 in a couple months......life has become just a blurr in time.

I never listened to fk all I left school because it offered me nothing ever I told them all to piss off .but let me tell you one thing I learned I didn’t need anyone only me! And in life I got everything I ever wanted ❤ I’m the luckiest man on this earth, best family best of it all , no regrets, xxx

Really excellent video. We need to get this out there to help people wake up.

@andreflavell3453

10 ай бұрын

It’s hard to wake people up . They are mainly brainwashed