πŸ“š Watts Alan – The Universe Experiencing Itself
05. The Art of Awareness

33. The Beauty of Unfinished Moments

A reflection on the quiet power of incompletion β€” and how allowing moments to remain unresolved reveals a deeper form of awareness.

2017-01-24 β€’ 2 min read

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The Beauty of Unfinished Moments

> "Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone." β€” Alan Watts

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The Obsession with Completion

We are uncomfortable with unfinished things.

Unanswered questions.

Open conversations.

Projects still in motion.

We want closure. Resolution. A clear ending.

As if life were a checklist that must be ticked off before it counts.

But life rarely finishes neatly.

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The Tension of β€œAlmost”

An unfinished moment feels unstable.

It exposes uncertainty.

It reminds us that we don’t control the final shape of things.

So we rush to conclude.

To explain.

To decide too quickly.

But in doing so, we cut short the natural unfolding.

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The Space Where Life Breathes

The pause before an answer.

The silence after a difficult sentence.

The slow shift of something that hasn’t yet taken form.

These are not empty spaces.

They are the places where life is reorganising itself.

Just because something is incomplete

does not mean it is lacking.

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The Illusion of Finality

Nothing is ever truly finished.

Even endings are transformations.

Even conclusions dissolve into new beginnings.

What we call β€œcomplete” is simply a point where we stop looking.

But existence itself is always in motion.

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Letting Things Be Unresolved

There is a quiet maturity in allowing moments to remain open.

Not forcing meaning.

Not demanding clarity.

When you stop trying to wrap life in conclusions,

you begin to see its subtle beauty β€”

fluid, evolving, unfinished.

And perhaps that is exactly how it is meant to be.

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> "Unfinished does not mean incomplete β€”

it means alive."