: By Alan Watts

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InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration

August 1, 2023

The focus for today is:

I choose to enjoy life rather than try to control it.

Today's inspiration was written by Alan Watts:

Do we want to be in control of it all, or do we want to enjoy it instead?

After all, we can't enjoy what we are anxiously trying to control.

The song of birds, the voices of insects, are all means of conveying truth to the mind. In flowers and grasses we see messages of the Tao.

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Today's inspiration was adapted from the InnerSelf.com article:
Control or Joy: Which Do You Choose to Experience?
Written by Alan Watts.
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This is Marie T. Russell, publisher of InnerSelf, wishing you a day of enjoying life (today and every day)

Comment from Marie: Seize the day (carpe diem). It's time for us to seize moments in the day to enjoy the wonders of life and of the people in our life.

Our focus for today: I choose to enjoy life rather than try to control it.

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RELATED BOOK: What Is Tao?

What Is Tao?
by Alan Watts.

In his later years, Alan Watts, noted author and respected authority on Zen and Eastern thought, turned his attention to Taoism. In this book, he draws on his own study and practice to give readers an overview of the concept of the Tao and guidance for experiencing it themselves. What Is Tao? explores the wisdom of understanding the way things are and letting life unfold without interference.

Info/Order this book. Also available as a Kindle edition.

About the Author

photo of Alan Watts Alan Watts was born in England in 1915. Beginning at age sixteen, he developed a reputation as a foremost interpreter of Eastern philosophies for the West. He became widely recognized for his Zen writings and for The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are. In all, Watts wrote more than twenty-five books and recorded hundreds of lectures and seminars. He died in 1973 at his home in northern California.

A complete list of his books and tapes may be found at https://alanwatts.org/

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