How To Waste Your Life & Never Be Happy - Alan Watts' Antidote to Guilt

An inspirational and profound speech from the late philosopher Alan Watts.
Original Audio sourced from: “Alan Watts - 'Cosmic Network, Extended Seminars'
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"If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time" 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.
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.

[@dmackenzie3528]

“The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.” ― Alan Watts

[@Spoofsinyourface]

I started reading this comment in awe that someone in the comments could actually write something so profound and thought provoking, until I realized it was just another quote from Alan. 😂

[@Shockmeslow]

​@@Spoofsinyourfacegive them credit for a great quote"?

[@Spoofsinyourface]

@@Shockmeslow read English much?

[@alexanderherrera1287]

​@@Spoofsinyourface yeah but after reading it and it said Alan Watts on the bottom. I would have kept to myself.😂 live long and prosper🖖

[@Spoofsinyourface]

@@alexanderherrera1287 I'm sorry, unless it was ME who you wanted to care about what YOU would do, because in that case, I definitely don't care.

[@dantev6983]

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." Marcus Aurelius

[@adammac4960]

The best advice I have heard. If you feel guilty about something don’t do it again. So simple. Your past does not define your future. Move on and be happy before it’s too late and forgive yourself.

[@takeuchi5760]

I feel as if Alan's words will become more and more fitting and needed for us as time goes on.

[@miscellaneousSLUDGE]

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans"

[@lizquinn3568]

Worry solves nothing it destroys the body and soul 😌

[@philibbergwerf]

But how to not worry about anything? It seems impossible....

[@VokeRwasha]

​@@philibbergwerf You are now worried about being worried lol

[@blucat4]

@@philibbergwerf If you stop worrying, will you stop breathing? Will the wind stop blowing? Will your stomach stop digesting it's food? Will the birds die out? How silly! 🙂 Imagine God saying: "I hereby relieve you of the burden of trying to control the future, or even this present moment. I got this!!" 🙂🙂

[@yoyo-wr9ep]

Worry is like a rocking horse ..you can do it all day and get Nowhere ..😁🦋

[@Mike-gc2hm]

​@Philip Bergwerf it's possible my friend I was once a worry about everything kind of person sick from worrying and anxiety but over time I train myself to stop worry and just live you must reprogram your brain and just be

[@BenJehovah6969]

Your life is only wasted if you're trying to live up to the ideas others have tried to convince you that have to live up to, else they judge it as a waste. That feeling of guilt is there (and should be) because you continue to collectively allow the things that make you feel that way to happen, simply by saying that's just the way it is, and I can do nothing. When you decide you can do something, and you create the way that it is....Poof...That guilt fades away like a fart in the wind. You don't fix problems by ignoring them, you face them, and when you start solving them happiness comes for along for the ride.

[@ChanIzKineske]

Yup, no need for sleepless nights on day offs, because of war or starving people on the other continent, feed your neighbourhood and it will eventually get to the every hungry persona.❤🎉🎉

[@Baileysam2022]

I turn 50 in August . I worked since about 13 years old at fish plants , chicken farms , just about anything I could to get ahead . At 44 yrs I had a fall that left me unable to go back to my 30yr profession as an ironworker. For the first couple of users I was devastated, I lost everything I ever worked for because the banks and the government just wrote me off . Today I'm still after 7 + yrs not even getting disability yet . But the one thing I realized in the last few years is that the only one going to take care of me is Me . They (the governments) have rules for which are to stave us rape us of all dignity we build the office's that these tyrants work in and without us they would not exist. But yet we struggle. I've learned that if I'm hungry I will fish,without rule ,I will plant without rule, I will harvest animals without rule . Cause you know why? There's not a human being out there that can tell me or any other person on this planet that we need money to survive.and unless you have money your not worth anything. This is in my opinion the failure of human kind . Be safe out there my friends. Just one more note if we in the western countries all just said the hell with work for 1 month all of us . Just think of the crash we would set up for out ridiculous governments

[@SarahHawke-mk6mq]

Live in the here and now you would be amazed how wonderfully long life can last try don't study too long to learn about life is to truly experience it

[@evitapepperoni1980]

I don't feel guilt, I feel injustice for never being paid what I've deserved. Now I don't work and never will again!

[@jacobvanveit3437]

You have victim mentality. Justifying your behaviour by convincing yourself that you don’t need to work in order to survive. A fools errand to think your existence doesn’t involve work. How about do something you love instead of being a victim of something you hate. Even the smallest life forms have to work to survive.

[@James_36]

@@jacobvanveit3437 you are half right, your solution is stupid - "do something love" often and very rarely comes with a wage... they call it "work" not "love" for a reason

[@toddracicot706]

You were never born, and you never die. You and the creator are one. Experiencing. You are a soul experiencing Human right now. Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Energy cannot be created nor destroyed. It just changes forms. Love Light creators, we got this 😉 ❤️

[@m.f.richardson1602]

Mistakes are lessons we've learned. So we don't make mistakes we learn. Peace 💕🇺🇲

[@dukestreetking5094]

Beautiful words . Much peace to you too

[@alessandrajouberteix4663]

I would strike out the word “mistake” and replace it for “experiences.” When I realize all the do called “mistakes” I made with my children, I go into deep depression and spiral down self flagellating for marrying their father and for me even being born. Who is to say this or that was a “mistake”? Obviously “it was” and therefore “it is”. I love Allan Watts, he has been instrumental in me living my life in my own terms.

[@reeblesnarfle4519]

Very thought provoking... Off mainstream thinking. I love it. Who knew rationale and positive thought would end up in the demand it is. Keep it going! 💪😎👍💜🙏🇺🇸🌹

[@tarawillis3995]

theres never been on mainstream though provoking thinking ever

[@LoLoThePirate777]

Love Alan always! ❤

[@ignaciocontartese3019]

this is absolute gold, thank you so much

[@pheresy1367]

Wow... This a beautiful treatment of a most enduring and powerful voice which is ALAN WATTS. Great job done with great love.... Thank you

[@GlockSnW]

Just live and let live. You control yourself and what you want to happen. Anything can and will happen regarding the positive or negative output you give.

[@yoyo-wr9ep]

Yes go with the flow ..🐟🐟🦋

[@timetraveller4116]

No , not always. But what other choice do we have ?

[@quinktap]

You never really know until you know.

[@frontsidegrinder6858]

Alan♥

[@janbudin5900]

It makea me cry of joy and despair

[@blucat4]

Dramatic music for those who want a drama. There's not enough nothing in this.

[@deemisquadis9437]

The ascending has happened to many. And we know many things that are beyond your understanding. All I can say to help you have peace in these most horrible times, is love everyone unconditionally and forgive all things forever. This will keep you sane and at peace. 😊

[@infinitewisdom8594]

Just be you❤💯

[@christinegalysh7433]

Thank you and All the best

[@VenusLover17]

Awesome!!

[@indo3000]

I’m 41… this hits hard.

[@misterman3379]

Now I feel guilty that I’m always feeling guilty….

[@rogerlin9602]

It's not a great human failing to make mistakes. Freedom means freedom to make mistakes. Human behaviour at the deepest level is in complete harmony with the universe. Guilt is simply licking the wound in your ego. 🔎🍨🔭🏇🌵💖🍉🌞🌵🎁 Making money your sole purpose is confusing it with happiness. Sun ray isn't realised without darkness. You are more than the rays. You are the source of rays. Everyone is a divine being that requires spectrums of every kind. They join in circles. Every point is a center, envying those above and pitying those below! Thanks Alan. 16 May 2023.💡🔎🌷🌱💖🐞🌷🎁🔔

[@yoyo-wr9ep]

Great insight as usual ..🙏 top marks 😇

[@takeuchi5760]

I appreciate you putting the source of the audio clips in the description.

[@musicloverforever8475]

Truly Beautifully Inspiringly Enlightening Thank You One Consciousness

[@meshellavatar]

You can only realize light by the contrast of darkness ✨️ 🎶 ❤

[@eeveonsoundcloud]

Apparently the people who own this channel doesn't understand Alan's very message.. I posted a comment with the name of the original speech and the timing of the video you can find it for those who wanted to listen to it without any disrupting audio, and he simply deleted it!

[@donnabowman7448]

Succinct ... and true! ...D.🌻...

[@OnlineRadioSchool]

Another good video matey

[@corbinburg]

As a forest never truly dies when a wildfire consumes it, so are our lives. As soon as the forest is scorched, life immediate springs from the ashes. The great cycle of life. Death is only a new beginning!

[@marypalmer1062]

this lesson is part of what matters. ❤

[@osamaqtaitat]

What matters?

[@TheWayofFairness]

If you are fair, you win. If you are unfair, you lose. Unite against unfairness.

[@quinktap]

Life is merely a single moment, like a heartbeat. Experience is merely many heartbeats strung together. There is no telling of this story. One has to let the heart beat. Some can chop wood and carry water and some try to force open the petals of a flower. In order to know one has to know.

[@jeffwhite2511]

This is great advice for everyone except for sociopaths and narcissists, who are basically all the nasty, cruel people who run the world and make life difficult for everyone and everything else so it's kind of a vicious circle of guilt and forgiveness for us and power and profit for them

[@troyselland6059]

Mistake? Miracle? Same.

[@goodstuff1237]

10:43 minutes of Alan Watts, a slice of a very important lecture. If you can folks listen to the entire message.

[@matthewmann2875]

❤️

[@Karmicmoto]

Fabulous Edit ❤

[@stephengoldberg393]

Why does anyone put music and video to Allan Watts talks??? His talks do not need or want enhancement or decoration they are there and here for us exactly how they exsist. Please don’t tochup the Mona Lisa or add a drum track to Bach. Thank You.

[@VokeRwasha]

Most of the time it's because of copyright. Try uploading one of his talks unedited and KZbin will strike it down within seconds. I think the uploader did a fantastic job.

[@blucat4]

Try listening to a talk by Rupert Sheldrake, just uploaded on his KZbin channel. The video is called "Finding Transcendence in a Secular World". The difference is amazing. Peace, not dramatic noise. Cheers. 🙂

[@princehosain509]

Freedom means basically , the freedom to make mistakes .

[@osamaqtaitat]

And the freedom is to be able to NOT doing, feeling, or believing what others try to impose on you! Mostly…..

[@brianingwersen7182]

Money 1st is the Worst

[@jaredleemease]

Oh my goodness

[@davestucker7149]

Loved the music, because without it we wouldn't have the message because of copyright issues .

[@blucat4]

What? How does adding music get around the copywrite issues? I hate the music and I cannot listen to this. At least they could have put relaxing music and turned the VOLUME DOWN!!!!

[@eeveonsoundcloud]

@@blucat4 I know right, that's so annoying...

[@Eyeballman24]

This man was connected to the Universe and knew the Truth.

[@AGregBergThing]

That's true. That's why he smoked and drank himself. He made it to the mountain top saw the truth then left us.. in his 40's. much respect

[@blakebunch4485]

Working for money is how you bargain with the future. Sacrifice some time and energy today for a better tomorrow.

[@billyboy10011001]

The music ruins the message. Kind of ironic

[@Hexadecimal110]

What is the name of the piano song playing at approximately 3:00?

[@saerain]

We see red to violet, however. Purple is an illusion, the spectrum is not a circle.

[@Backfromthestorm]

Cant even hear him over that music. Never mind

[@blucat4]

Agreed.

[@KenTaylor-qs8mi]

Let's take the shame out of drugs and using them I mean shame and guilt May work for some yet not others

[@paulsowards8345]

Video title was applicable to the video content, excellent content though.

[@martinhanley9524]

The soundtrack is A COMPLETE DISTRACTION - ruins it !

[@tiltingatwindmills3243]

I swear to god just like hippies followed the Dead on tour, Alan Watts had a van full of people with a chronic cough following him around…

[@blucat4]

Does anyone know where I can find this without the absurdly annoying music? (And video as well, but 95% the music.) I can't listen to this.

[@andrearenee7845]

😇🥰

[@adamduncan1629]

What does he say after saying if you see the spectrum as a circle ?? Agt 9.43

[@anthonycalandra3115]

🕉

[@user-bs8ki2gt4i]

Could the music especially the piano be reduced in volume please, it's distracting and detracting from the message to be heard from mr watts. Thank you.

[@ramthian]

❤❤❤🙏👍👍👍🇬🇧

[@MG-fr3tn]

That science has become our demise and hasent stated it in a law is not an omision but a hurbus . That to have status value to the bearers of children is a wilfull indiffrance to our new paradime.

[@geespar1]

Music way too loud, not needed at all but at least could be in the background

[@Atmanyatri]

I can’t hear him because the music is so loud

[@martinhanley9524]

I agree . The spoken word should just be unadulterated without this distractive soundtrack . It ruins it . This is a noisy world . Try going into a library today where people talk on their phones, talk out loud . Good point you make.

[@peggydorais5756]

@@martinhanley9524 You think that music is noise? I don't know what you are doing on this channel.

[@VokeRwasha]

Probably to avoid copyright fingerprinting. Be grateful this video is even up in the first place lol.

[@martinhanley9524]

@@peggydorais5756 If I'm trying to get directions from someone and try to listen to the spike word I don't need music blaring over what I'm trying to listen to. When Watts gave these talks there was just him speaking . No soundtrack or drum roll or whatever .

[@peggydorais5756]

@@martinhanley9524 Other people make video without music, just go listen to them instead of complaining here. Here we like the music... I think you don't really understand Alan's message... live and let other people live... Have a nice day!

[@hilcho]

But what if our sense of good and bad is socially dictated by culture and most dont even noitice. The good are bad and the bad are good. How do we know in 2023?

[@ronaldsmith6161]

If you find a job you love, you'll never work a day in your life.

[@jackmedcalf6254]

Music is mixed too high. It takes away from what he's saying.

[@lunkerjunkie]

guilty: judged wrong or bad.

[@KingPivot001]

music was too loud and distracting, detracted from the speech

[@chrishavens3620]

Fantastic! But please remove the cheesy motivational music

[@blucat4]

THANK YOU!!! 👍👍

[@erwinwoodedge4885]

How I long for the video's of Watts without hyperbolic images and annoying atmosperic / triumphant music.

[@truescotsman4103]

don't take life personally

[@miscellaneousSLUDGE]

If you can't listen to alan watts with music then you don't deserve his message

[@blucat4]

Alan himself would ask you to turn off the distracting noise, go into nature, and just listen. There's not enough nothing in this. But you wouldn't understand what I just said.

[@TheCameltotem]

I love my job and I love making money

[@TheCameltotem]

@Darth Vader No i just told you I love it. You should embrace happiness to my friend.

[@stephenleguern444]

Fuck being happy and I haven’t wasted anything

[@rjchiedog]

why most posts have stupid loud music. it doesnt make it any better

[@rebekatabobondung6024]

Piano music very distracting

[@Baker68]

Now need for the music. It sounds like a mess

[@OxygeneAirTime]

Ruined somewhat by the music - words really worth listening to don't need some amateurish attempt at dramatization

[@blucat4]

Exactly. We need more nothing, they fill it up with drama. Just missed the point entirely.

[@user-we3pf7bd1k]

What's cigarets spelled fast now! 🎉😮 No! They are not secrets! They Are crutches before the secret! 😅

[@BANGProductionz]

Could you tell the guy on the piano to go a little less forte good lord

[@brianfunke981]

This is a very privileged attitude. There are plenty of dirty jobs that need to be done. For if they are not done, they will be much dirtier and much more necessary.

[@MICHAEL-lb1si]

THE FOOLISHNESS OF GOD IS WISER THAN THE WISDOM OF MAN.

[@MICHAEL-lb1si]

IT IS NOT ACIENT GRIEF THAT IF YOU DON'T WORK YOU DO NOT EAT IT IS SCRIPTURE THAT SAYS LET HIM WHO DOES NOT WORK NOT EAT. IT HAS TO DO WITM MANS SIN ,AND FROM THAT DAY WOULD SURVIVE BY THE SWEAT OF HIS BROW. ALAN IS SO INTELLIGENT HE IS LOST.

[@lenwelch2195]

You can have the good without the bad , do only good things. The bad is not needed in order to know or do the good. We shouldn’t let ourselves off the hook that easy. That’s the last thing people need to hear. Removal of guilt feels good , it allows us to do what we want without the feelings that should come from doing the wrong or bad thing.

[@peggydorais5756]

you can't have only the good... sickness make you realise what being in good health mean. Life is made of good and bad thing... and sometimes what we call bad is in reality good so...

[@tinaanam5506]

@@peggydorais5756 facts! Bad and good go hand in hand just like the way an inside cannot exist without an outside and vice versa, we are always busy looking and worries about the situation rather than embracing it and choosing to see the beauty in the now,it all goes to perspective ,I've experienced amaizing moments in situations one would thing are bad,I CHOSE TO SEE BEAUTY IN EVERYTHING AND EVERY SITUATION😊❤

[@yoyo-wr9ep]

Good luck with that ....don,t step on a ant ..cause thats not good..🙏

[@peggydorais5756]

@@tinaanam5506 That is too much... people can loose a child and their is nothing to understand about that except the lost of a child... same thing for abuse... Their is bad and good. The good is not in all bad...

[@indiraghai7972]

U can get unconditional love only through God from prayer

[@yusofahmad50]

Absolute bullshit

[@shro_okee]

only? Sounds very limiting

[@samreich7042]

ALAN WATTS DIDN"T KNOW THAT UNDERSTOOD GUILT BRINGS FORTH LOVE.😅😅😅😅😅

[@ravennarosen1368]

Without the music I would enjoy it more

[@Entelehija]

Stop this background music pls

[@brianellinger6622]

no frank... you said that i can exit at 50.... cj want 56...... he lives for past you cj said...... this man dies old...... get nit frank?

[@mickeyguide3112]

John 3:16 'For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life'....soon,very soon. Believe and accept this free Gift of your Creator, God 🙏. Amen

[@samreich7042]

THE DIFFERENCE IN JESUS CHRIST AND ALAN WATTS IS THAT JESUS WAS FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT ALAN SPECULATES HIS REASONING OF HIS SURROUNDINGS.

[@vidaaventurera5265]

COOPERATION V.S. COMPETITION DEMOCRACY V.S. REPUBLICANS ❤☆😊❤☆😊❤☆😊❤☆😊❤☆😊❤☆😊》☆《😊☆❤😊☆❤😊☆❤😊☆❤😊☆❤😊☆❤

[@RobertJones-ku4fg]

People who prefer this without music are the same people who would eat dry toast rather than with butter or marmalade

[@blucat4]

This is not a party where you add as much noise and intoxicants as you can! It's meant to contribute to a more spiritual state of mind, with silence, and a decrease in the distracting fast thoughts, and an increase in silence. There's not enough nothing in this. But you wouldn't understand what I just said.

[@tinaanam5506]

@@blucat4 was on my way to comment and then I saw your replay 👏.

[@Memee833]

Please don't show a..... Plan IT.

[@HavingCoffieWithMrSatan]

Mr Satan reeeeee😊

[@jlo1195]

The creators of money are the root of all evil...

[@aflowerispower]

cheap stock footage + top tier speaker = smh

[@peggydorais5756]

When jealousy speak ...

[@guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248]

This is just eloquent rambling.

[@VokeRwasha]

Watts himself would probably agree with you lol