The Real You - Alan Watts

An inspirational and profound speech from the late philosopher Alan Watts.
Original Audio sourced from: “Alan Watts - 'Nature of Consciousness' from Human Consciousness”

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T&H Inspiration is on a mission to share inspiring wisdom. The goal is to have you pause, think, and reflect. Many of our videos revolve around the extraordinary teachings of Alan Watts that we produce with permission from the Alan Watts Electronic University.

T&H also films and releases original interviews with iconic people who have experienced successes, while also persevering through life's highs and lows. We look forward to sharing more of these perspectives and insights.

Our hope with these videos is to push your thinking. As Alan Watts said “No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.” – Alan Watts.

[MckennaCountrCulture]

"Who's gonna listen to my talks over and over again, probably no-one" 
Oh, Alan. If you only knew!

[Mrplurkyou]

You ever just sit there at school or work and have these existential thoughts and wonder why you’re sitting at that desk?

[yrnharambe]

“You are the universe experiencing itself”

-Alan Watts

[goliathsauce]

who else is here in 2024 and still adoring alans beautiful voice? And hearing everything i needed to know 8 years ago. i hope you are as blissful as i am. i wouldve done everything in the world just to have a conversation with you. you helped me seeing the reality and life as it is and i am so sad that i couldnt have a discussion with you.... thank you for everything mighty alan watts you are very much apreciatted.
Looking forward to see you again some time and hoping for another lecture then. Much love Alan from Goliath

[xReisk]

Man I wish this lessons from Alan Watts could be shown to some kids/teens in the school, this generation is missing the good stuff here and most likely because of the material world ideology.

[marcoclaytonjadesmith]

Watts has literally scooped me out of depression

[mominatashfeen]

For those who prefer reading:

“If you’re ready to wake up, you’re going to wake up. And if you’re not ready, you’re going to stay pretending that you’re just a ‘poor little me’. And since you’re all here, and engaged in this sort of inquiry and listening to this sort of lecture, I assume that you’re all in the process of waking up. Or else, you’re teasing yourselves with some kind of flirtation with waking up - which you’re not serious about. But I assume here, maybe you are not serious, but sincere. That you are ready to wake up. So then, when you’re in the way of waking up and finding out who you really are, what you do is what the whole universe is doing, at the place you call here and now. You are something the whole universe is doing, in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe. So then, when you die, you’re not going to have to put up with everlasting nonexistence because that’s not an experience. Lot of people are afraid that when they die they’re going to be locked up in a dark room forever. And sort of undergo that. But, one of the most interesting things in the world - this is a yoga, this is a way of realization - try and imagine what it would be like to go to sleep and never wake up. Think about that. Children think about that. It’s one of the great wonders of life. What will it be like to go to sleep and never wake up?And if you think long enough about that, something will happen to you. You will find out amongst other things, that it will pose the next question to you. What was it like to wake up after never having gone to sleep? That was when you were born. You see, you can’t have an experience of nothing; nature abhors a vacuum. So after you’re dead, the only thing that can happen is the same experience, or the same sort of experience as when you were born. In other words, we all know very well that after people die, other people are born. And they’re all you, only you can experience one at a time. Everybody is I, you all know you’re you and wheresoever beings exist throughout all galaxies, it doesn’t make any difference. You are all of them. And when they come into being, that’s you coming into being. You know that very well, only you don’t have to remember the past in the same way you don’t have to think about how you work your thyroid gland, or whatever else it is in your organism. You don’t have to know how to shine the sun. You just do it, like you breath. Doesn’t it really astonish you that you are this fantastically complex thing and that you’re doing all of this and you never had any education in how to do it?”

[clairehall]

this man makes me feel like i am the most important insignificant speck that ever was

[charlesmiller]

"So then, when you're in the way of waking up and finding out who you really are, what you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call here and now." Makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. A true "aha!" moment. "Only you can only experience it one at a time. Everybody is "I", you all know you're "you", and wheresoever beings exist throughout all galaxies it doesn't make any difference, you are all of them." The Gospel of Alan Watts brings tears to my eyes.

[matangiram]

You don't need dramatic music when the words themselves drop a bomb.

[thecode]

Me brother just sent me this after 40 minutes of our dad passing away. Rest In Peace daddy. We love you so much. We’ll always be here becoming into the people you’ve always wanted us to be. I will make you proud. I promise you

[xtonibx]

"When you die, you don't have to deal with everlasting nonexistence because that's not an experience"

That is the very quote that disintegrated all the fear I had of death.

*Edit 1 year later:* *I believe that death is simply nonexistence, but I'm not going to walk up to a Christian and tell them that their views are wrong. If I believe what I believe, then that's what works for me and you shouldn't have an issue with it even if you think differently.*

[joeybuchanan]

for the first time in an incredibly long time, i want to live

[maximelagace]

What a quote! So profound "The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around; the real, deep down you is the whole universe."

[bobdillaber]

Many long years ago when I was in the throws of my own personal, seemingly endless, life-threatening depression, I remembered a suggestion I had read in a book by Og Mandino. He said, Meet everyone with love in your heart. Having tried everything else to escape my dread with no success, I tried to do that - my own way. So I did this:
No matter who I met I would Ilook them directly in the eye and say to them (silently) I love you. It felt funny at first- meaningless, empty and staged. Little by little however, it came more easily. Until it became almost a habit.
After listening to this short piece by Alan, I now understand why I gradually began feeling better. For when I told that other person - I love you - I was really telling myself - I love you - because that other person and I are really one.

[David_F]

Well I don't feel as scared anymore. Thank you.

[Freakville]

''Imagine going to sleep, and never waking up.'' This really made me think.

[ray]

We are the universe experiencing itself through infinite points of view❤️

[Supastackman]

What’s crazy is Allan Watts died in his sleep and was a alcoholic and heavy smoker. His philosophies are his thoughts and concerns that are genius in a way. I start listening to his lectures about 2 years ago. Blessings to all 🙏🏽

[Quantiad]

When you are dead you don't know that you're dead, it's difficult only for the others. It's the same when you're stupid.