Allan Watts

"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float." ~Allan Watts 

I thought you might enjoy this little video... Allan Watts is a bit wacky... but if you can get past that- he has some beautiful things to say.

He was well known as a light along the way for many, someone who grew up in the early 1900's learning the names of wild flowers and butterflies, playing beside streams, and performing funeral ceremonies for birds. He become a philosopher, writer, speaker, and student of comparative religion. He was best known as an interpreter and populariser of Asian philosophies for a Western audience.

He wrote more than twenty-five books and numerous articles on subjects such as personal identity, the true nature of reality, higher consciousness, meaning of life, concepts and images of God and the pursuit of happiness, relating his experience to scientific knowledge and to the teachings of Eastern and Western religions or philosophies (Zen Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, Hinduism, etc.).

Allan Watts was a superman in the world of knowing as far as I am concerned... ; )

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”

~Alan Watts

 

“How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.”

~Allan Watts

Everybody needs a bit of Allan Watts in their life. A wonderfully whacky man.

Part Two and Part Three are on You Tube...