Stop Trying to Find It And You’ll Have It - Alan Watts On The Backwards Law

A powerful and profound speech by Alan Watts on the law of attraction.
Original Audio sourced from: “The Works ” by Alan Watts
►“You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes”
- 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.

[@ButterflyAwakening]

If you're reading this, remember that you have a gift - another day of life. Nourish your soul, trust the journey, and believe in yourself. The universe has your back. Keep moving forward, one step at a time, towards your higher purpose! 🦋🦋🦋

[@paulnovak833]

Beautiful words. Thank you

[@healthyhabitmavericks]

Thank you! ❤❤❤

[@pmn2831]

Thank you.

[@LOVEizGOLD]

I copied and shared this to my Facebook feed. All of it and tagged you in it. Thank you, for these glorious and prayerful words. May you have a blessed day. 🙂

[@Q-Limited]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[@dmackenzie3528]

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” ― Alan Watts

[@paavoviuhko7250]

You really need to get beyond quotations to your own creative expression of your own sense of identity. I mean leave your master behind. There is now Alan Watts anymore.

[@OnlyThisMoment]

I force nothing, this way, I never feel resistance. Life can break you to pieces, but you can always put those pieces back together, and eventually, become unbreakable 🙏

[@ZenMasterNahc]

"To understand all is to forgive all" This is perfect.

[@MgtowFreightTrain]

God understands all but he does not forgive all.

[@josephconsoli4128]

I found Alan through a loose shoe-lace. I bent down to tie it in a bookstore, looked over at the shelf near me and there was one of his books. I was so drawn to it. I took it home and my awakening began. The first time in my life I learned to let go. Thank God for this man.

[@Vikijunior11]

which book is tat?

[@josephconsoli4128]

@@Vikijunior11 "Become What You Are"

[@gustavo.sanford]

It was your own doing all along.

[@josephconsoli4128]

@@gustavo.sanfordTrue. I envy anyone who freshly arrives at that "AHA!" moment.

[@michaelnewell6385]

A teacher in college turned me on to Alan Watts many many years ago and I have been an avid listener ever sense. One of the best things a teacher ever did for me.

[@ThroughTheseGlasses]

Alan Watts was amazing. Love listening to his thoughts. He has changed my life.

[@imanser]

He changed nothing, he just made you see your true self and made you be aware of your actions and made you be conscious of your i - that’s all.

[@wadeparker8695]

In my opinion, when it comes to Alan Watts, just a black screen. No video needed. Thank you

[@CTHD13]

Close ya eyes

[@maximelagace]

Great speech by Alan Watts. Never heard this one before. Thank you. This makes me think to one of his famous quote, ""You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago."

[@sparklingaxethus]

Really? Would you be able to point me towards a video in which he explains that in more depth? Or is there any context you could give me? That quote seems like something I really need to hear and Alan watts explains things in an easy to understand manner

[@yoyo-wr9ep]

I am the gentle warm breeze that rustles the leaves ..🙏🌿🌿🍀🦋

[@philliprobinson7724]

Hi. And dries the washing hanging on the line. Cheers, P.R.

[@martinhanley9524]

You can get fhese speeches on KZbin without ( background music ) if you type it in - it's a distraction trying listen to the message with this musical score

[@gregbrown5020]

Music a travesty. Thx you so much for your creative brilliance.

[@bealreadyhappy]

Once realised in one has a beauty foot and a power foot. Both come from the place of already happiness. being already happy means that one is a servant to the world once he’s clearly seeing all duality can be embraced. And will be embraced inherently. It is inherent to the enlightened disposition.

[@darealbro6]

So simple yet so, profoundly complex

[@DebbieMarkham]

6:25 until the end.... is the awakening.. "If you praise someone, you're praising the beloved and all it's manifestations, and... To understand all is to forgive all."

[@bealreadyhappy]

6:16 the one living as an Open hand, in the enlightened Disposition doesn’t get a kick. He or she is simply Already Happy. Da!😊

[@alessandrotulisso9817]

Thank you!

[@tonyjohnson8929]

Whoever authored these words, bravo. It's like nutritional candy to my ears. I'm eating and appreciating the plates and silverware as much as the food. Thank you, bravo👏, encore.

[@fredjohnson9856]

Guru Maya said something to me in the 90's and I didn't really understand it till I heard this - thank you.

[@rogerlin9602]

You always get what you want. You always get back what you send out. It's karma. 😇🔍🤠🍉🌺🍉🌱 Doing isn't new to you. You have always been doing. We play the game of praise and blame. Don't praise or blame. You dig the whole thing. To understand all is to forgive all. 🎯🐧😇🍉🦊🍇🌞🐳🌱 You are born to live your whole self. One self must include the other, the environment. They are two sides of the snake swimming through water. The inside and outside move together. Human behavior isn't a response to the compulsion of the environment. Understand that the behavior of the environment is an essential part of you. Anything less is resistance. Resistance creates sensations and ego. Ego is strain between the eyes. “I” is total panorama of the experience. Thanks Alan. 6 June 2023.🌱🤠🔬🔍🤠🔎🐳🦊🌺🐓

[@OnlyThisMoment]

🙏

[@michaelnewell6385]

I love the Beatles lyrics that go, “and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make”. I found it profound that it was the last bit of lyric they ever recorded.

[@andrearenee7845]

I love this one in particular. Thank u.

[@NAzar-dw3kp]

Beautiful work and message. Subscribed!

[@pheelmacababe2861]

very beautiful, i just had a back and forth about action and inaction with someone and i gave them nothing, had left them absolutely confused and speechless, its was quite entertaining

[@veehismayl4085]

I didn’t understand. You mean you ignored them?

[@pheelmacababe2861]

@@veehismayl4085 every question they asked me I responded with generalities and no direct answer, it shows the important of communication and specifics

[@lancesudberry209]

​@@veehismayl4085why not? Can it be not - only for them and not you? Ignore always im semi quasi ignorists exploitioner advanced advisor

[@dream2space234]

6.11.23 '"I" is the total panorama of the experience

[@blackrook29]

You get told to grow up take responsibility if you refuse to move with the sheep. We are expected to have done things by certain age. Move out, get a job, get married have kids. Rinse and repeat the cycle and if you fail you get looked down on and banished 😅

[@philliprobinson7724]

Hi. People who live without the purpose of at least becoming self-sufficient usually get asked to move on. We either learn to stand on our own feet, or we'll be ejected for standing on other people's toes. Cheers, P.R.

[@EmeraldFalcon777]

As one recognizes the Divinity forget not that we are all mirroring reflections of each other ♀️ Fragmental expressions of the Light that came into existence upon it's own accord Love creates and binds ALL ❤️🙏🏻

[@marthejuste5533]

Knowledge is all around us. It needs only awareness to grasp it. That's not all, having it. You have to chew quite a while and then digest it. Once you past this stage, fear is no more. This is also one among so many teachings of Yeshua (Jesus the Christ). The Gospel of Thomas. Blessings to all.

[@Gity444]

So if your raised very negatively and that's all you've ever heard ,isn't it sad that what someone is putting out was learned possibly and they don't know any different? Makes life harder for sure!!

[@yoyo-wr9ep]

Born Free as free as the wind blows 🦄

[@Fixingtodraw]

Your lifestyle today is a result of yesterday's dreams. The Lord once said you will reap what you sowed.

[@victorcamargo6392]

Such wise words from an enlighted being and end up lost behind a stupid music background interfering with the deep message embebed in his words..........!

[@yoyo-wr9ep]

Smoke Hashish and go for the summit ..carry rice and dry beef

[@ForagingMama]

"Just dig the whole thing"

[@robertg.durant8489]

Milfs dig monster energy

[@daleroley5185]

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

I knew the Stones were wrong

[@victorysoul8408]

Song please

[@andrewa3103]

I am. On the four corners of the world.

[@emmanuelzozobrado5981]

You can still praise and not blame others

[@monty70]

🙏🏻

[@piehound]

Waldbaum's supermarkets had an advertising slogan. *GET WHAT YOU WANT. BUT GET IT AT WALDBAUM'S.* And York Peppermint Patties had a slogan *GET THE SENSATION.* Am i indoctrinated . . . or what ??? And in the movie MASTER AND COMMANDER the captain said *In the service one must always choose the lesser of two weevils.*

[@SmileFreestyle-hx2rc]

I'm not so sure the title and the subject matter lined up this round. But to understand all is to forgive all (as a completely different lesson) might regard a sense of morality. It's like this. The nurse who heals is a cog in a brutal wheel that requires a certain income in order for the healing to take place. The traveling psychologist trashes the earth with his car. There is no such thing as a completely good nor evil act; furthermore the lesser evil is often based on some form of confirmation bias. Our instincts are to survive and that leaves no room for moral superiority in any regard

[@philliprobinson7724]

Hi SmileFreestyle.. Once your survival is assured, you can start to consider what it means to be moral. It's a luxury only the rich can afford, but few ever buy into. Cheers, P.R.

[@SmileFreestyle-hx2rc]

@@philliprobinson7724 That's an interesting quote. But I've been in survival mode most of my life (PTSD, financial issues that come with debilitating issues) and one of the things I've thought most about and acted on on some level has been morality. Far from a good person though; whatever the hell that is

[@philliprobinson7724]

@@SmileFreestyle-hx2rc Hi S.F. My final sentence is not a quote. Believe it or not, it's a personal observation. Others have probably made the same point. Extreme poverty doesn't lead to moral behaviour because it destroys our freedom of choice in life-or-death matters (like food). Your final question of "what is a moral person?" is subject to personal definitions of "right" and "wrong", as you obviously realize. I'd suggest "a moral person" is one who considers the nature of "right and wrong" because it's important to them. "An immoral person" is one who couldn't give a hoot about the topic. "Nice guys come last", those sorts of sayings. I also have a physical disability, acquired in my youth when I had an "I'm bullet-proof" philosophy on life. For me, "eat, drink, and be merry" rapidly changed into "act in haste repent at leisure". Such is life, "the unexamined life isn't worth living" (Socrates). Neither is an unexamined moral code. The best quote I know about "right and wrong" in regard to human behaviour, comes from the 17th century Dutch philosopher Desiderus Erasmus. "As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons". I like it because it allows disabled people some protection from bullies ("without surrender"). Any moral code can be fairly judged by how it treats the weakest persons. All the best. Cheers, P.R.

[@brookephillips1516]

Fabulous I like to comment....! That you did

[@user-hj3wt7uv8g]

Messiah

[@rafaelmoreno1192]

a question : A little boy with abusive or absent parents, is still getting what he wants?

[@philliprobinson7724]

Hi Rafael. Karma assumes reincarnation, so the abused boy is getting back what he created in a past life. Cheers, P.R.

[@GD-tn3ez]

No! It’s all bull 💩 Satan rules this world. That’s why he offered it all to Jesus if He would bow down and worship him. That’s why psychopaths are in charge and destroying everything. But Watts is right; you can’t do anything about it, so you might as well let go and live in peace if possible.

[@zandrokos]

holy fuck sometihng just clicked for me

[@andrewa3103]

I am begining like Watts. Eother desf or alive. That is important, Real Avetar can do that.

[@bealreadyhappy]

Yes, 0:16 but is what we want what we need?

[@chrisjarmain]

No, but much like what I feel I understand from this whole video is, if you have everything as always going up... how would you know up was up any more? If you always had what you wanted, would you really want it. I guess the Universe gives itself a surprise. That way, you are reminded of the direction you're headed. Up suddenly becomes up again. ❤

[@MadonnaGrogan]

Not always

[@lancesudberry209]

Musical Chairs Fear of the Dance If you had come into realizing you been left empty alone and tremble quick to trust or to embrace? Keep in mind in line pathetically prevertioned all by designs from scary sense eccentric with nonexistent bases important parts of a shoe ties times tried carried care for you who me you us we still not Alone 💔

[@howardrobinson4938]

The music...distracting.

[@habanero5866]

Millennials looking out on the ocean…

[@jayc3110]

Silly and unnecessary music in the background makes this impossible to listen to. Why do you find the need to add music if someone who is speaking. Would you like someone to done up a stereo while you are speaking? Thanks anyway and best wishes

[@PrimeNPC]

You should listen to what Alan has to say about so called discordant sounds

[@jayc3110]

@@PrimeNPC thank you. Can you please send me a link to that talk? I did a quick search but could not find anything relating to discordant sounds

[@MichaelK0rs]

I looked it up and apparently he said "You can listen to discordant musical noises and find them extremely interesting if you listen carefully enough." Nevertheless, I think the point still stands. I want to pay attention to his words, not music and sound effects.

[@jayc3110]

@@MichaelK0rs thank you. You've got a better focused mind then I have! I have to train myself. Best wishes.

[@paavoviuhko7250]

It's KZbin. It's only a farce. Alan Watts said it himself. He's a philosophical entertainer.

[@dawncanter4529]

Thank You. Nothing makes any SENSE 😂

[@philliprobinson7724]

Hi. "To understand all is to forgive all" agrees with Christian doctrine and theology, but according to Jesus there is "an unforgiveable sin". Therefore either Jesus did not understand everything, or Evelyn Waugh didn't know as much as he thought he did. Cheers, P.R.

[@bealreadyhappy]

1:44 are they doing as the damn please or is God doing? Is God living them? Is it God that is doing what it dam pleases?

[@haydnakahadge9374]

Are they themselves a manifestation of god?

[@geob8172]

God's Words are :- Seek and You will Find.

[@indiraghai7972]

Yeah passing comments n criticising others, it only reflects who they r, poor creatures they don't realise they become naked when they do such acts

[@humblinghumblrooski]

⬆️ 🎯

[@bobbyjames1986]

it IS absurd. Such is life.

[@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'

[@newconceptdigital8641]

pure lie

[@mickeyguide3112]

@@newconceptdigital8641 bot exposed lol...

[@newconceptdigital8641]

@@mickeyguide3112 wat else ca you say?

[@mickeyguide3112]

@@newconceptdigital8641 a bot who can't write = bot exposed 😂

[@kouroshz]

I just wish they stopped adding the background music to Alan Watts' talks. The words are enough and the music is artificial and does not add any depth. It tries to make you feel a certain way that does not flow.

[@OnlyThisMoment]

Not everyone shares the same perspective as you. I know many people that cannot listen to such speakers without some music. Music adds, much like dressing to a salad. Not everyone is willing to eat a salad without dressing, even though it is good for their health.

[@Crabbadabba]

@@OnlyThisMoment But there’s already enough dressing on this salad bucko. Alan Watts used a lot of pauses and variations in his tone that are the dressing. The music in the background is like putting so much dressing on that it makes the salad soggy.

[@Crabbadabba]

Also a lot of the point of these talks is to disconnect not add a corny typical backdrop about life in the background especially when these talks can mean different things to different people.

[@PrimeNPC]

Due to the audio quality of most Alan Watts recordings it more often than not makes his words far easier to listen to, especially casual listeners. Some music choices may "clash" but one video of Alans changed my perspective on that very thing, teaching to pay attention to all sounds as one process, that way nothing can clash. There's a video called Sudden Enlightenment and it has a light ambient backing track and I think that type of music is best for his speeches. I believe most creators of Alan Watts content put a lot of effort and care into syncing the excerpts with appropriate music and images. It works most of the time

[@knowingbeingone]

Great Alan Watts. But music and pictures much to loud and intrusive! Dear T&Hs, it's not about You - Its about Nonduality!!

[@yeshuaneitheristheresalvat8018]

If you people cannot tell when one of Satan's emissaries are deceiving you, then you truly are on the very bottom rung of the ladder of intelligence.

[@zandrokos]

you are blind and that is sad the christian "god" is evil.

[@philliprobinson7724]

Hi. Some of Satan's emissaries shout "praise the Lord" and do works in Jesus' name. Read (Matt 7:21-23) for Jesus' opinion on this. The abuse implicit in your graceless comment indicates you're one of them. Cheers, P.R.

[@paavoviuhko7250]

Definitely you are on the right wrung of reciprocity. Can't have a God without a Satan. There's a need for dialectic. I mean between good and evil. Can't have one without the other.

[@philliprobinson7724]

@@paavoviuhko7250 Hi Paavo. Forgive me for intruding on your conversation. I agree entirely on the role of dialogue. However I doubt whether any meaningful dialogue with extreme Evil is possible, because just as "Good" is equivalent to "Truth", so "Evil" is equivalent to "falsity", or dishonesty. In dialogue with an entity that is dishonest by definition, I'd suggest any dialogue is meaningless. I'm not sure whether Satan needs to exist as an antithesis to God, but I'm certain we can do good without doing evil. Cheers, P.R.

[@MrWhatever1234567]

🍻 you got the answers paslov. Watts is 90% right on the money. I guess I’ll never understand even with all the information in the world at my fingertips, why people like me exist

[@danjameson1572]

Do not be anti- or pro- anything. THIRD PATRIARCH

[@thankyouand3260]

Horribly loud music, destroyed it👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻

[@bobbobertson7568]

This guy was basically a forerunner of the hippies and this video is showing people striving toward meaningless corporate "career" goals. Come on, just show a still of the guy and play his words, no music needed

[@radfordsmith2773]

Blah,blah,blah... remember, when you listen to men (women) , they no as much as you... which is just what you need. Live, Love and be happy.😘

[@paavoviuhko7250]

That's right. Blah blah blah.. I like that. You have positioned yourself where belonging matters fundamentally to grounding in empirical belonging. Of course very important for all of us.