[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Self-understanding]] - People: [[Alan Watts]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfe7LUmqhcI --- ## Summary - [[When we stop, we find a world that's happening, rather than being done]] - [[The moment you stop and do nothing, is the moment you surrender yourself to nature as it really is - to yourself as you really are]]. - [[Realization is connection. Connection is exchange.]] - [[Who looks outside dreams; Who looks inside awakens.]] - [[The resistance of nature forms the sensory basis of ego]] - [[Free yourself from busybodying, and your own nature will begin to take care of itself]] ## Notes - "You can't transform yourself. You can't make yourself. You can't make yourself loving. You can't make yourself unselfish. And yet it's absolutely necessary that we be that way." - "You don't really exist as that separate ego or personality. It's just an idea based on a phony feeling." - The moment you stop and do nothing is the moment you surrender yourself to nature, as it really is - how it moves on and keeps on flowing on its own without your influence. "Your breathing. The wind is blowing. The trees are waving. Your blood is circulating. Your nerves are tingling. **It's all going on with itself. That's the real you**." - "[[Men's extremity is God's opportunity]]" . - [[When we stop, we find a world that's happening, rather than being done]]. And that happening as distinct from doing is our fundamental self. - The point of realization is the point in which two worlds collide - you and another person or you and the world itself, "...which can includes all this outside world, no longer left outside realization" - [[Realization is connection. Connection is exchange.]] - In the moments we realize that we cannot do anything, we must allow ourselves to simply exist to simply be. [[Allow yourself to just exist]]. Wait for the opportunity to inevitably reconnect. To reconnect with the world as you now see it and with your sense of self within. - The real world simply is. Reality simply is. - [[Free yourself from busybodying, and your own nature will begin to take care of itself]]. [[The great things you do are really happenings]]. - Get out of your own way. - "If you think it through, you find that you never could take enough data into consideration the data. For any given decision is infinite". - Don't fight your nature in an attempt to climb a hill. Let yourself be. Surrender to your true nature, and the hill lift you up all on its own. - [[The resistance of nature forms the sensory basis of ego]]. - [[To be who you truly are, is to be liberated from ego]] - [[Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate]]. - [[Who looks outside dreams; Who looks inside awakens.]] - [[If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's]]. - [[Where your fear is, there is your task]]. - [[You are what you do, not what you say you'll do]]. ## Original ![[Alan Watts' eye opening speech - Unexpected truth-1.jpg]] ![[Alan Watts' eye opening speech - Unexpected truth-2.jpg]] ![[Alan Watts' eye opening speech - Unexpected truth-3.jpg]]