The Path to Awakening
To understand music, you must listen to it. But so many people try to understand it by reading about it. That's why there's so little real understanding of either music or life.
Alan Watts
British philosopher and popularizer of Eastern thought.
All moments: Alan Watts
- Between Effort and Grace — Alan Watts
Most of us spend our lives climbing the ladder of success, only to discover that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.
- The Secret of Human Existence — Alan Watts
You didn't come into this world. You came out of it. As leaves from a tree. You are the universe experiencing itself.
- Life as Theater — Alan Watts
Life is not a journey to a destination. It is a journey and the journey itself is home. Life is a musical thing.
- God Playing Hide and Seek — Alan Watts
We are playing hide and seek with ourselves. It's an extraordinary game because God, if God is everything, gets to pretend that he is not everything. This is the only thing that can happen to God - getting to be…
- The Nature of Consciousness — Alan Watts
Consciousness is a singular of which the plural is unknown. There is only one of it and, in the end, we come to the realization that you are it.
- Love and Fear — Alan Watts
Love is a way of being in the world. It's not something you do, it's something you are.
- If Money Were No Object — Alan Watts
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way. Ask yourself: what do I desire?
Related moments
- All Music Is Folk Music — Louis Armstrong
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
- The Power of Compassion — Michael Jackson
The most important thing is love and compassion. They override everything.
- Music Is Life — Jon Batiste
Music is a spiritual practice, a therapy, a way to connect us to ourselves and each other
- Alien Artist — David Bowie
I never tried to fit in. I prefer to be myself, even if it's alien.
- Compromise and Conscience — Bob Dylan
I'll never sell my soul for money or fame. It's my only true asset.
- The Soul of Music — Questlove
Soul is what makes music real. It's what people feel