Most People Will Never See It - Alan Watts on Identity
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- An inspirational and profound speech on identity and what you think you are from the late philosopher Alan Watts. Original Audio sourced from: “Alan Watts - 'Myth of Myself'" and “Alan Watts - 'Not What Should Be' from Tao of Philosophy”
"When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He is universal by virtue of the inseparability of his organism from the cosmos. He is unique in that he is just this organism and not any stereotype of role, class, or identity assumed for the convenience of social communication."
- Alan Watts. (1915 - 1973)
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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.
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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.
When you’re listening to Alan watts.
You’re where you need to be. You’re asking yourself the right questions. You’re on a path towards enlightenment. Enjoy it. And share it with others ✌🏽
Wow, thank you ❤️💐
The path of enlightenment is the most miraculous and most beautiful thing ever can happen to someone. Being aware that being aware is just out of reality
I'm stardust and I'm part of this perfect universe!! When you realized this, the trees, the oceans, the clouds on the sky, the moon, they all will talk to you because we're one!!!
YES, WE ARE ALL ONE WITH THE UNIVERSE AND GOD!
I love Neil deGrasse Tyson too. He is the astrophysicist who coined that term, “We are all star dust.”
And he ought to know.
Are you really expiranced?
...and the universe is within us.
@@jameslyles4624 native American.
Indians, come from India, another country..
seeing through the illusion of personal identity is _hard_ - it is hidden in plain sight
That's illusion
I am, that I am.
A mere reflection 💯
If you are reading this, you're closer to your goals and ambitions than you think you are. You woke up and wanted to make a change, so you found these videos to give you motivation. It's not long now, your success awaits you
"We are only one"❤️
I m from Portugal
Blesseds for you!
You're right, we are all one, we understand that. Now only the politicians have to understand that and we will have a better world
Many of us are told from a young age who we are. We identify with the name that our parents gave us, our job title, or even our own image of ourselves - the ego. But we are not any of these. We are simply consciousness experiencing and observing this universe from a unique, humanoid standpoint. In this way, our experience of nature and nature itself are not separated, but the same everlasting 'you' that always was and always will be.
Well said.
@@nickd713 ?
Yes, but it's like vegetables, it has an expiration date as do we.
Self-illusion or thinking is like a transparent curtain that adds an extra layer of information to our vision, we see our thoughts but they do not exist in front of us! This is the human ability to see things that do not exist! The problem that occurs in humans is that, when the nervous system contracts, the thinking process automatically begins to think! And because most people have more or less nervous system contractions, they have this extra thought! And in the long run, these thoughts almost become an additional operating system, and it makes its own decisions! If the nervous system relaxes, this process of extra thought will automatically stop and the new human being can see the world as it is without disturbing the mind! After that, it can be understood that creation is predetermined from the beginning to the end day! As consciousness we only understand the life story, and the rest is out of our control!
@@pouya3945 Please send me the name of that stuff you're smoking. Or schrooms
"I came out of this world, not into it" love that...never thought of it like this until this man highlighted it.
that stopped me cold. I had to pause it and just let that sink in............
To anyone reading this, thanks for being so unique and wonderful. Without you the world will never be the same. Keep on working hard!
People are an expression of the universe’s energy and nature. What a wonderful concept. I love it. 🖤
@@vinceabbatino
Yes, through the Divine Beauty of Consciousness everywhere 💚 ✨ 💖
Except for some and Now.
If you are reading this
I would like to let you know
You are on the right path and well guided.
You will be blessed with health and wealth and only good comes your way!
~ Much love from a Law Of Attraction TH-camr💜
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I needed this tonight thank you so much sending much love energy your way and to the whole universe 💕
i don't need health nor wealth nor law of attraction ,but thanks for the offer. also you can't tell who's on right guide and who is not , you're just trying to make people feel better by lying to them.
No, it is NOT TRUE that anyone will get everything thet want, desire, etc. LOA is victim blaming. We must accept that life here is temporary and the there will be pain, sorrows, and we hope, joy, and more. It is wrong to promise anyone" you'll be blessed with wealth and only good comes your way," because fate is not controlled by us. We exist. The best we can do is to be ourselves, to accept the life we are living, do our best. Buddha said it best: ALL LIFE IS SUFFERING. Poor people are not poor because they thought the wrong thoughts. That is victims blaming, magical thinking.
We exist. We live. We experience our existence on earth. That is enough. Acceptance of the negative along with the positive is necessary if we are to free ourselves from the trauma of being human.
Instantly one of my favorite quotes at the end. The idea that we are, like every other organism on earth, just an expression of its energy -- is profoundly comforting when you are suffering.
I agree. i get comfort from contemplating that too. It'll all be okay, no matter what. Not that we don't experience pain, sorrow, hardship in our current realm/existence, we are but a tiny blip of the whole unfolding everything/universe, etc.
(No, def not referring to universe sin law of attraction, which, to me, is 100% victim-blaming bunk. I mean universe as we are chatting about it are in this thread--we are stardust ....
Dear person, who reads it. Yes, I mean exactly you! Maybe we don't know each other. Still, I want to say, that I believe in you! You will certainly achieve your dreams and your happiness! Just don't give up and be honest with yourself! Now you have at least one person who constantly believes in you, which means you are fated to realize your dreams! No doubts here ^)
*Best wishes for you ❤️ from a small TH-camr..*
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absolutely amazing and great you're right
lots of love and affection for you
warm regards
jai karera bhopal India
I am humbled, Many Thanks and Much Love we share.
thank you
Thank you so much! That were just the right words at the right time 💮
Большое тебе спасибо!
So beautiful..WE CAME OUT OF THIS WORLD..LIKE A ROOT BEARING A FLOWER LIKE A TREE BEARING FRUIT..TOUCHED MY ❤..TRUTH HAS A VIBRATION AND YOU FEEL IT
I ask myself, "Who Am I?" and I feel connected, spiritually. I am part of Spirit. I am higher consciousness. I have been pulled into the light within the dark and am each and every time I think I might sink into an abyss. I always rise, in Spirit. I feel enveloped by Spiritual Energy. Angels, on high. Ancestors. Soul Tribes. My beloveds. High Vibrational Energy Am I. 🙏💙
No that's delusional
@@Lucifer-zj6id no, that is a certain perspective. Maybe it's not working for you, but that is irrelevant. It seems to fit Shar and that is what really matters. Focus on your own perspective and live your life to the best of your abilities. Good luck 🙏
@@Lucifer-zj6id You juat haven't had a spiritual awakening. It is being evolved. I do not choose to only believe in what I can taste, touch and smell. Move on negative person. Faith is real.
Shar S. Well said.
I'm glad that you discover that, hope u have a nice live
Every time I hear him speak, I shed a tear..
"I came out of this world." Yes the body (collection of earth) and mind(collection of images of the world). Every idea, philosophy, thought, emotion in that so called 'me' came out of this world, just to play a role in it. It's so brilliantly interconnected.
Once you are ready, Life is so splendidly beautiful.
The best video I've seen on TH-cam in the last 7 years. 😳 Universe bless 🙏💜
Universe Bless
"People are an expression of its energy and of its nature." That's it!
I hope everyone enjoys themselves and has a great time living. Life is amazing, thank you.
A great speech from a wise man 😊
While you live on this world, you are the wave of actions you create in this world. When you leave this world, you become something else.
The present moment is the GIFT to foment. Life is for living not for dying!
That is *WHY "LIFE The Real Self" is ETERNAL* , and the human body is temporary.
Best wishes to you all from CHICAGO ILLINOIS to the world 👽👽👽
Chi town > everyone
💪🏼💪🏼
To Think beyond taught
To See beyond sight
To Hear what is silent
To Live in Loves Light
Living is about Feeling
Feel all you can, don't stint
Being is about Choosing
Choose Love ❤️
Peace and Unity
You have
AML🌬️🙏❤️
"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly".
Once we learn to change our mechanical, repetitive behaviors, we can come to a true understanding of what we are as the living spirit (the Self) within the flesh.
Right on!!! I saw the other one was gone because I have it on a playlist and it’s one of my favorites and I love you made another one so quickly
What a gift I’ve been given to listen and admire. Plain beautiful words and realise wonder love and fantasy is for everyone and thing 🧸
I AM LOVE and LIFE; And, both are forever lasting.
Can or can not,, you are probably right. What you are is the better question. Benevolent I'm counting on.
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING US SIR 💙🌈🌎
I love him so much
“You are loved!”
MUCH TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE! ❤☀️👽📡
Much Love 💘
AND WISDOM
Whoever the 'you' you are, is a good thing. Good things happen for a reason. I have no idea what reason. But I love you anyway 💜
I love you too 💜
Good video!! Thanks 😊✌️🧘♥️👣
This requires understanding the forces that make up the world and everything in it, including us. For a soul stuck into an animal body, in a world with material, vegetable, animal, human, and higher forces making everything up, with forces constantly jockeying for control inside us, it is a complex problem.
I am you. I feel proud and privileged when I say I am, yet I is individual and a scam. I am everything and nothing.
TO THIS DAY!
Love the little girl investigating
Thank you. So interesting.
Out identity is Individualistic. We are just an image of ourselves playing the role of our conscious behavior. We can change our habituated behavior to synchronize with nature as it is the greatest asset and knowledge.we should also build connection with the outer world without hostility
Beyond words, beyond text, beyond mind and emotion there is a knowing to be found. You will find it in silence if only you would have the simple courage to surrender…. Don’t think of a path… walk every path…. To find out any truth in this life first discover all the things that are not true… You may be utterly surprised and ecstatic and burst out with laughter and tears at the same time…..
We are one with the Universe,, The Universe is one with us..
Excellent Alan Watts
I love everyone 💗
We're Spiritual beings having a physical
(human beings)
HalleluYah✨️
I found gold in the sludge of you tube.
Very enjoyable. Question question
So phenomenal
loved it
The unshared life is not worth enduring. Get rid of the ego, get rid of the idea of self, rid of your expectations, get rid of everything you thought you wanted, everything you thought you were, and once everything's burned away... everything that remains is yours to keep.
If and only if senses were all there is to our mind, the little machine with greatest complexities Rumi talked about some 800 years ago.
The best answer for 'me' is what is provided in Nah-jul-balagheh, what Ali(sa) provided - explained by Ayatollah Ramezani in five sessions in 2011.
Senses are only a small part of our brain and a very important one, but does not answer all there is to our personalities.
The best we can do in to look at the world, as a tool, to ascend to the divine love.
'One who doesn't want to know is really dead'
Thanks Alan♥
All questions will be answers when we die
Briliant
I am an expression of my universal energy and of my universal nature.
My universal energy & Nature is peaceful, healthy, wealthy, prosperous, pure, loveful, knowledgeable, blissful.
Thank you ❤️
Thank you God 🙏
Bless All Life 🌞💕
_"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."_
*Ralph Waldo Emerson*
And when you do accomplish it the world will hate you and you'll love it.
@Pumped The second that you go down I'm going to kick you, the data doesn't lie!
You already did, you just had to name call. That is low you are down. So now how do you want to do this, I can meet you via appointment on the outside or just surprise you on the inside. I will use something against you that you don't even believe in. Shall we begin the process?
Emerson saved me. While he is not for everyone, I now believe all great teachers are saying the same thing and each of us can find the best teacher for us. It all comes down to the quality of the questions we are asking!
@Pumped Sure the world dosen't owe me anything they always pay up front, I do well quite well and If you think I'm boring. You must be debt-free and that one day you will achieve. Seriously though are you mad? Cheer up Pumped things are going to get real good for you from hear on out, just look in or go without. It's not going to go down, your not going to go down. It's going to go up, your going to go up only if you choose to. Now I will leave you with your ultimate adversary the only one that is in your way and can really hate you or love you and that is yourself. "I LOVE YOU!"
I'm just pieces of all of my experiences in life...with other people, places and things I choose to visit and learn from while taking, even, the uncomfortable/unpleasant or negative experiences, people, places, and things then choose the positive that's hidden in the pain
Changed my life
Yes you did
God bless u sLl the readers u r enough no give up n never surfy ?
It is absolutely absurd to say we came into this world. We didn't. ... We came out of it. - Alan Watts
I am a perspective of which the universe can experience itself, can witness its self - and know itself as that
Amazing in the comments are only spiritual people who have been dealing with the topic "Who am I" for a long time. Just like me. Nice to meet you all
Incredible thank you ❤❤❤🙏
Oh may good ⚘⚘⚘
4:29 “We Define To Confine.” ~ Samuel J. Martin III ©
And the "Who Am I" is the oldest spiritual question of humanity, right? The Book of Genesis says that one day we were just like any other animal on this planet; naked without knowing the difference from good to evil.
Then, we were endowed with the great sense of the Great I Am. We became aware. And then, we are here now asking ourselves Who Am I. We are part of the Great I Am. And the Great I Am was before we came to be.
The worlds greatest mystery,yet in some small way if we think about it ,its not a mystery!
@@nigelcash4065 keep the conversation going..this is liberating and interesting
What about heaven and hell ? Are we past that here ? Surely my parents couldn’t have been wrong raising me in church and indoctrinating me at the age of 5 to believe that I was a wicked sinner in need of saving… and now we are or a part of the I am ? That would be blasphemy in many circles. Didn’t the devil 👿 say “ I will be like the most high?” Isn’t that what we are saying here ? Oh the anxiety!! Where is the truth ? Jesus said he is.. but I wasn’t there to here it or see him, do we go off blind faith ? So that we are not cast into a lake of fire for all of eternity?? What about the Tao te ching other wise know as the book of the way… why is that not the truth? I’m so confused. Help me I’m melting… what a world, what a world~ wicked witch of the west.
@@MrFireman164 Dear brother, it's not that terrible and difficult.
"you are", isn't it? so, how could you not know yourself?
Please, try to go at the source of your being: there you'll find who you are.
So, sit down, close your eyes, let all thougths fall - at least for a few minutes.
Listen. See.
You are that; the one which is softly speaking in the silence and shining in the dark.
Still. Luminous. Smiling, dancing, singing. Hugging.
I'm with you.
@@ferdinandocoluccelli9574 love this! I meditate regularly and have read the Bible, Gita, Upanishads and the Tao. This comment was to make people think about what they are saying and question what they believe and why. I am a seeker of the truth not just a person who blindly believes what others say is the way. The guy in the above comments said keep the conversation going so I’m im for that maybe I will learn something I didn’t know.
i had a vision, my eyes were close but i was seeing a very bright light that suddenly becomes a shining star thats getting smaller and smaller until its like a stardust..i felt that stardust is me
We are one, but we are many
And from all the lands on earth we come,
We share a dream, and sing with one voice,
I am,
We are.........
Conscious(heart)
Awareness(mind)
Restores(soul)
Eye
Sight
absolutely correct
Aye *
I Am always correct
I AM MYSELF AND I AM THE DARLING OF THE UNIVERSE WOOOOOOOOOOW BEAUTIFUL I LOVE THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD 🤗🔮💜
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You are so right, that's why following the routines of what is supposed to be normal life like, getting in debt, buying a big home, having the latest fashions, priciest car.....for what. Mankind wastes his entire life following this program he was forced to believe since a toddler only to follow it to his deathbed trying to get free from it. 💸💸💸💸💸💰
i am the sum of all that makes me conscious
Consciousness is the sum total of all that makes you
@@johnsheppard1673 And blood-black nothingness began to spin... A system of cells interlinked within cells interlinked within cells interlinked within one stem... And dreadfully distinct against the dark, a tall white fountain played.
You don't come into the world. You come out of the world. All plants grow from seeds, within outwards. We aren't a bag of consciousness facing hostile external world.
Ego is identification of ourselves with our ideas and images of ourselves. This is impoverished hallucination.
People are expression of energy and nature.
Thanks Alan. 🌻😊🍾🎺🦋💪⛵🎀
this music man
Pure Science
Humanity LAW
Land Air Water all in complement one
with another.
LAW the human soul language of sound reason. Unique to each human and your experience. Developed in mindful self-examination and refined through heartfelt full self disclosure.
( REHAB TIME! ) PERSONAL IDENTITY DEPENDS ON CONSCIOUSNESS NOT ON SUBSTANCE. FACTS OVA FEELINGS!
My internal condition mental and physical affect my perception of reality. Like a mirror reflection what I put out comes back be grateful be in the present moment it’s so simple enjoy 😊
audiojungle lol love it
I dont exist...i i realise it completely after i die. Which is to say i dont feel anything after i die.
Duality is oneness. Oneness is duality. It's all perfect. Just the illusion it's not. It's all part of the game of life. Ie. Experience.
That’s a heavy truth
This worlds insane , the more I realize who we all are , the more I want it to end.
End it then. Live a different world according to what you would like the world to be. The rest is just white noise.
@@pierrebroccoli.9396 Guess you missed that others create this world not just you or I. I want it all to end.
I don't think you understand. It doesn't end. It's always going. Non-experiences don't exist.
@@loneskankster2242 oh… I realize alright. This isn’t my first time around.
Do you and be real to yourself and dont listen to opinions of others just believe inya self as yes you deserve it and will get it if you believe and follow with blind faith
When I did ayahuasca it said to me I am and proceeded to show me "movie clips" somehow showing that we are all connected took me out to this place where I was in blizz and I could see a white bright light. I was alone and I wanted to "die" in that moment. I wanted to stay there.
It takes courage to ask who am I because the I is not created by the self but by what has acted on the self. Only when it is understood what made the "I" can the self than become the force that shapes it but there never really is a I
This i has looked at your playlist and see's you have no ludovico einaudi in there. Thats music for the soul 😊
I Am
Self Is all I
I is all Self
@@johnharrison7176 Thank you for taking the time to make the suggestion. If you like piano, a favorite channel I follow is
"Rousseau " He does a wonderful interpretation of Ludovico Einaudi - Nuvole Bianche
@@katherinekelly6432 thanks i shall have a lòok now. 2 of my other favourites are m83 outro and cinematic orchestra to build a home. Have a nice day 😊👍
I Am and I know my Self
Who are you talking to Watts?
Self?
We can learn from history that what the majority believes has not to be true. In fact often it’s quite the opposite. And when it comes to the question “Who am I?” - most people will never see it.
I Am you and you are Me as you are Me I Am you
Peace Happyness
Happiness*
Got to be happy eat a little sleep a little work a little foundation secrets to life
Wow
I believe I'm a child of God
We are ALL GODS CHILDREN.... Love never fails
I believe I'm the product of billions of years of star stuff, exploding across the universe, coalescing into millions of years of evolution.
You are not just a child of God, you are God.
@@danny5473 dude u are tripping
I once did hard-core drugs & thought that, then I snapped out of it & became an atheist & existential Nihilist & skeptic 🤨
I am that I am.
The funny thing about the past for me is I really have trouble remembering what happened yesterday or hours ago sometimes I ask myself if the memory in having happened a few hours ago it was it yesterday? I rarely look at a clock but I can tell you the round about time it is just by a guess.
Self-govern
Sovereign
Self rule
Freedom
Sound reason
Liberty
Mind
Soul
Heart
I find the music really distracting.
Your I is distracting you
@@johnsheppard1673 My eyes are fine. My ears, less so.
When I say 》 I 《 then I mean or talking about an expierence that I made and knowledge or effidence that I made personaly out of it and so on.Everybodys sees things in a different kind of way,with a different kind of knowledge.Everybody has a name~And Instant of using my name I say I💡Not everything that sounds like wisdom is wise.And not everything that sounds foolish,is foolish.The explernations that we use in these world are words to put things in a form to talk about or to explain,in a conversation.Having deep thoughts in the right direction is very helpful.But put every little thing under the microscope can be a trap.However💡
only love 💜