The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now.… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of… — 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
