Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
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 Image
“It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
When death comes, it's just like winter. We don't say, "There ought not to be winter." That the winter season, when the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear… — 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. And exactly… — 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
We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. If you awaken… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. You cannot talk yourself into it or… — 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
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others. They do not belong… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
More and more we try to effect an adaptation to life by means of external gadgets, and attempt to solve our problems… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious… — 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
The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call "here and now," and you are something… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is… — 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
