Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was an English writer, theologian, and speaker known for interpreting and popularizing Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism for a Western audience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Watts ## Notes - [[Don't force anything]] - [[Unexpected truth - Alan Watts' eye opening speech]] ## Quotes - [[Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun]] - [[Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone]] - [[The art of sailing rather than the art of rowing]] - [[The great things you do are really happenings]] - [[The moment you know you're being natural. You're not.]] - [[The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.]] - [[View what is, as if you didn't even know how to talk]] - [[When we stop, we find a world that's happening, rather than being done]]