The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life? — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified.… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The future is a concept, it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will? — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We all need to go out of our minds at least once a day. When we go out of our minds we… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There is no coming toward it or going away from it; it is, and you are it. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“The self-conscious feedback mechanism of the cortex allows us the hallucination that we are two souls in one body -a rational soul and an… — Alan Watts Copy Share
The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clutch water in… — Alan Watts Copy Share
The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever. — Alan Watts Copy Share
If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall… — Alan Watts Copy Share
...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters. — Alan Watts Copy Share
The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests. — Alan Watts Copy Share
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity,… — Alan Watts Copy Share
The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to… — Alan Watts Copy Share
“As you make more and more powerful microscopic instruments, the universe has to get smaller and smaller in order to escape the investigation. Just… — Alan Watts Copy Share
We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the… — Alan Watts Copy Share
A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted. — Alan Watts Copy Share
The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind. — Alan Watts Copy Share
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of… — Alan Watts Copy Share
To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch. — Alan Watts Copy Share
