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
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 a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it… — 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
The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
This is what Zen means by being detached—not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music.… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what… — 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
Zen is really extraordinarily simple as long as one doesn't try to be cute about it or beat around the bush! Zen… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present.… — 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
