No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're… — 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
It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clutch… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“Although the rhythm of the waves beats a kind of time, it is not clock or calendar time. It has no urgency.… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Time is a social institution and not a physical reality. There is no such thing as time in the natural world -… — 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
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
We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Everybody is I, you all know you are you. And wheresoever's beings exist throughout all galaxies it doesn't any difference. You are… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.”… — 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
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
There is only this now. It does not come from anywhere; it is not going anywhere. It is not permanent, but it… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“There is simply no problem of life; it is absolutely purposeless play; it doesn't have to continue; there is no reason whatever… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream that you wanted to dream. And that you could, for… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“Although the rhythm of the waves beats a kind of time, it is not clock or calendar time. It has no urgency.… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn. — 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 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
