There are many videos out there, many teachers having the best solutions which are going to solve all your life problems and fix your life. But this is not true, you know this by now right? Let’s focus on the real deal. You need to start doing things because nothing will happen on its own.

If you have never heard of Alan Watts, you are lucky for seeing this article. He was one of the first people to interpret Eastern wisdom for Western audience. At a young age he discovered a Buddhist lodge in Britain. He moved to the United States (1938) and after that he became an Episcopal priest. His first pivotal book is The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety.

He moved to New York before this and after he moved to San Francisco where he began his Buddhist studies and started his popular radio show “Way Beyond the West” (source: alanwatts.org)

Here is a video with the speech of Alan Watts. You may find more material on YouTube or check out Alan Watts Organization website.

One of the most famous quotes of Alan Watts:

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.

If you’ve enjoyed this video please let us know what was your eye opening moment? Also make sure you check out other works of Alan Watts such as: The Way of Zen, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, The Wisdom of Insecurity (Mentioned in the previous paragraph), Become What You Are and many more. You may check all his books here.

Besides this there are audio files, videos and more.

Have you read any of Alan Watts works or listened to his recordings? Let us know in the comment section and tell us about how this has influenced on your perspective of life and self.