Alan Watts - Falling In Love // Life Lesson Motivation

Alan Watts - Falling In Love // Life Lesson Motivational Video

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[MyDawido]

Hello everybody, thank you for the 500k+ views and all the positive comments. I will be looking into uploading a version of this video without the music or with quieter music in the background, as I am aware by the dozens of comments telling me about the volume being too high. Stay tuned for that and more videos coming as I get more free time thanks to school ending!

[lydiapresson]

Sometimes I feel like I'm more in love with the thought of being in love than the actual person

[samanthatucker]

“Love is an act of surrender to another person” that hit hard

[kenzicarlson]

"Love to me is giving someone the power to destroy you, but trusting them not to."
E lockhart

[zhangao]

Someone like this comment please, so i can be reminded to come back here every once in a while.

[Anonymous]

The fastest way to receive love is to give love. The fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tight.

[Bulltardwin]

I've only been in love once and this might sound sickly sentimental but when i looked into her eyes I saw something, which I'd never seen in another human being before. It was as if the entire universe was staring back at me. *Edit – after 6 years her and I have just reconnected and met up. Life really is a trip.

[P.L.U.M.M.E.T]

I think he forgot to mention love is the most addictive chemical feeling humans could ever know. Love is a wake up call, especially when it slaps you in the ass. there's nothing like the feeling of being "in love" as a teenager. The hardest part is accepting that love can turn on you at anytime. The feeling of wholeness and want is suddenly out the window, and replaced by self doubt and depression. Love is the most beautiful feeling a human can achieve naturally, yet it can cause the worst mental/emotional pain a human can achieve.

[itzzzlunja]

Listening to Alan Watts before going to bed is making life so much more liveable

[Theprettycutiechibi]

My parent didn’t sign the permission slip for this feel trip.

[htsboxes]

Falling in love. And say, it's crazy. Falling. You see? We don't say "rising into love." There is in it the idea of the fall. And it is goes back, as a matter of the fact, to extremely fundamental things. That there is always a curious tie at some point between the fall and the creation. Taking this ghastly risk is the condition of there being life. You see, for all the life is an act of faith and an act of gamble. The moment you take a step, you do so on an act of faith because you don't really know that the floor's not going to give under your feet. The moment you take a journey, what an act of faith. The moment that you enter into any kind of human undertaking in relationship, what an act of faith. See, you've given yourself up. But this is the most powerful thing that can be done. Surrender. See. And love is an act of surrender to another person. Total abandonment. I give myself to you. Take me. Do what...anything you like with me. See. So, that's quite mad because you see, it's letting things get out of control. All sensible people keep things in control. Watch it, watch it, watch it. Security? Vigilance? Watch it. Police? Watch it. Gods? Watch it. Who's gonna watch the gods? So, actually, therefore, the course of wisdom, what is really sensible, is to let go, is to commit oneself, to give oneself up and that's quite mad. So we come to the strange conclusion that in madness lies sanity

[Stormance]

“Well now really when we go back into falling in love. And say, it's crazy. Falling. You see? We don't say "rising into love". There is in it, the idea of the fall. And it goes back, as a matter of fact, to extremely fundamental things. That there is always a curious tie at some point between the fall and the creation. Taking this ghastly risk is the condition of there being life. You see, for all life is an act of faith and an act of gamble. The moment you take a step, you do so on an act of faith because you don't really know that the floor's not going to give under your feet. The moment you take a journey, what an act of faith. The moment that you enter into any kind of human undertaking in relationship, what an act of faith. See, you've given yourself up. But this is the most powerful thing that can be done: surrender. See. And love is an act of surrender to another person. Total abandonment. I give myself to you. Take me. Do anything you like with me. See. So, that's quite mad because you see, it's letting things get out of control. All sensible people keep things in control. Watch it, watch it, watch it. Security? Vigilance Watch it. Police? Watch it. Guards? Watch it. Who's going to watch the guards? So, actually, therefore, the course of wisdom, what is really sensible, is to let go, is to commit oneself, to give oneself up and that's quite mad. So we come to the strange conclusion that in madness lies sanity.”


Edit: bro I totally forgot about this speech, this videos, this comment. Everything. And I ended up in this videos because of instagram and I was thinking “let me see the comments hopefully somebody wrote down the speech”. And I saw my own comment and I got shocked hahaha. Thanks to myself I guess.

[CharlesVeitch]

I watch this video about 10 times a year.

[anonymousnug_]

Anyone else just have a feeling in the middle of their chest that they cant explain and a feeling of forgetting to breathe. Never, not once in my life have I ever experienced this feeling in my life. Not crying, or a sadness, almost an emptiness of confusion, because you have a totall understanding of what this man is saying. This is the kind of impact i want to have on people. The kind that makes them forget, forget about life, forget about anxiety, forget about sadness, forget about worry, forget about breathing, and just allow them to be. Be human. Be one with themselves.

[yeshwanthkumar]

If you've just had a heartbreak don't listen to this. You'll cry like crazy

[ethanmitchell]

I asked my grandfather what falling in love was like for him……..
He was 82 at the time…..
My Grandma his wife had died 2 years before……..
We were sitting in his living room reading and then talking and I asked that……
He stopped and this look went across his face………..
It was………immense and complete emotion……it was as if every memory he had was condensed into that moment across his face and he then said……
“You know the metaphor of life in the storm on the ocean don’t you grandson?”

“Yes”

“Well……..for me it was like being in that storm and I looked and I saw all sorts of other people….people on rafts….in motorboats and even Yachts…….”

He then smiled it was a pure and joyful smile……..it was the first time I’d seen him genuinely smile since before his wife’s death

“But your grandma……wasn’t in a yacht…….she was on a raft like me…….sure I could have gone for that yacht or that nice motorboat but…they weren’t her………..”

“So…..what did you do grandpa?”

“Well I swam over to her of course! Once I got there I told her about they way she made me feel……of course she didn’t believe me……but I stuck around and eventually we grew to know each other and then I brought it up again and she of course didn’t believe me still!”

“And what did you do then!?”

“Well I asked
‘what can I do to prove this feeling I have about you to be true?’ She looked at me and went ‘something truly insane’

“Aaannnndddd??!!”

“I did the only truly insane thing you can do out at sea! I tied the anchor to me and fell off the boat!”

“But aren’t you going to drown!”

“Well sure! I was gonna drown…..but she was worth it. If I had to drown it would be for her!”

“What did she do!?”

“Well she did what I hoped she would grandson! She jumped in after me!”

There was a long pause and my grandpa still had that smile on his face. I was young and didn’t fully understand his words at the time. He saw my confused face then put his book down got off the chair came over and grabbed me by the shoulders to tell me something I will never forget…….

“Son………..the point is……that she was willing to drown for me just as much as I was for her………she was willing to dive….to fall down into that deep dark cold abyss where no warmth can touch your bones and no light can reach your eyes for me just as I was for her……….love shouldn’t be measured in distance or time my boy sure you can be together as long as me and my Lee-Ann were and you can be as many miles apart as your great grandfather was from his wife when he served in Europe half a world away…….but it isn’t the time or the length of love that matters…..it’s the depth my boy……..so…..find someone that’s willing to dive that depth just as much for you as you are for them find someone who’s willing to fall down into that dark cold black just to get you back all so you can lash your to rafts together and brave that storm we call life together…………do you understand grandson?”

“Not fully but I feel like I get the point?”

“Good the point is all that matters…..go on let’s finish reading…..”

He died 2 years later……..at the time of this he started showing signs of onset Alzheimer’s so my father began placing recording devices in the room wherever my grandpa was just in case he said something he forgot or placed something somewhere he forgot……
And I’m so glad he did……….

[silverado]

when u say you have fallin in love with someone what is really happening is that, in that person presence you have brought to the surface your best self. you are actually feeling the best about yourself than you ever have. who you really love to a much greater extent now is yourself, but we project it and attach it onto the person we believe allowed us to connect with oursleves on our deepest level. thats why (romantic) love is actually egotistical. and so when that person for whatever reason is no longer around we feel heart break, it is because we feel we have lost our best self and our best ability to connect with and love ourselves, all because we have accredited it to that person. thus the secret is to learn to love oneself unconditonally and not need another (the love of our lives) to enable us. then when we do find that person that we may want to spend the rest of our life with, it is not because we need them like we need a drug, or would lost without them but because it is so much more real then that. ego is the enemy. relinquish that and you will always find unconditional love every where you look.

[sophiadonai]

Don't fall in love....rise in it. Grow with it. Love comes from within. no one ever takes that from you. I am love. knowing that, even losing someone you know that you never loose the love within you

[GiaTheSweetPotato]

It's sad knowing the amount of pain "surrendering" myself has caused me. I'm scared to ever fall in love again after that. But I want love. I desire that. But I am too fearful to lose my control. So I am stuck in this perpetual limbo.

[MrPhumiwanichkij]

Well now really when we go back to falling in love
And say, it's crazy
Falling
You see?
We dont say "rising into love"
There is in it, the idea of the fall
And it goes back as a matter of a fact
To extremely fundamental things
That
There is always a curious
Tie at some point
Between the fall
And the creation
Taking this ghastly risk
Ah, is the condition of there being life
You see, for all life is an act of faith and an act of gamble
And the moment you take a step
You do so on an act of faith
'Cause you don't really know that the floor's not going to give under your feet
The moment that you enter into any kind of human undertaking relationship, what and act of faith
See you've given yourself up
But this is the most powerful thing that can be done, surrender
See, and love is an act of surrender to another person
Total abondonment
I give myself to you
Take me
Do anthing you like with me
So, thats quite mad
Because you see it's letting things get out of control
All sensible people keep things in control
Watch it, watch it, watch it
Security?
Vigilance
Watch it
Police?
Watch it
Guards?
Watch it
Who's going to watch the guards?
So, actually, therefore, the course of wisdom
What is really sensible, is to let go
Is to commit oneself, to give oneself up and that's quite mad
So we come to the strange conclusion that in madness lies sanity
The moment you take a journey, what an act of faith