“It is in vain that we can predict and control the course of events in the future, unless we know how to… — Alan Wilson Watts Future Copy Share Image
“According to convention, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“But you cannot understand life and its mysteries as long as you try to grasp it. Indeed, you cannot grasp it, just… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“A particularly significant example of brain against body, or measures against matter, is urban man’s total slavery to clocks. A clock is… — Alan Wilson Watts Clock Copy Share Image
“As soon as we freed ourselves from the mirage of hurrying time—which was nothing more than the projection of our own impatience—we… — Alan Wilson Watts Children Copy Share Image
“In this respect, the Chinese written language has a slight advantage over our own, and is perhaps symptomatic of a different way… — Alan Wilson Watts Chinese proverb Copy Share Image
“The startling truth is that our best efforts for civil rights, international peace, population control, conservation of natural resources, and assistance to… — Alan Wilson Watts Civil rights Copy Share Image
“There is, then, an analogy–and perhaps more than mere analogy–between central vision and conscious, one-at-a-time thinking, and between peripheral vision and the… — Alan Wilson Watts Analogy Copy Share Image
“For man seems to be unable to live without myth, without the belief that the routine and drudgery, the pain and fear… — Alan Wilson Watts Faith Copy Share Image
“But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives… — Alan Wilson Watts Intelligence Copy Share Image
“On the one hand, there are people known as straight, regular, square (and there are also cubes and tesseracts), classified, degreed, graduated,… — Alan Wilson Watts Eccentrics Copy Share Image
“For Lao-tzu’s Taoism is the philosophical equivalent of jujitsu, or judo, which means the way of gentleness. Its basis is the principle… — Alan Wilson Watts Chinese language Copy Share Image
“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death… — Alan Wilson Watts Bird flying Copy Share Image
“Ye suffer from yourselves, none else compels, None other holds you that ye live and die And whir upon the wheel, and… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“According to tradition, the originator of Taoism, Lao-tzu, was an older contemporary of Kung Fu-tzu, or Confucius, who died in 479 B.C.1… — Alan Wilson Watts Books Copy Share Image
“Consider the difference between the two types of globemaps of planet Earth, the physical and the political. The first is a marvelous… — Alan Wilson Watts Outer space Copy Share Image
“I well remember the first great hemp shop that was opened in San Francisco around 1976. It was essentially a long wooden… — Alan Wilson Watts Hemp Copy Share Image
“Money is a way of measuring wealth but is not wealth in itself. A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet… — Alan Wilson Watts Money Copy Share Image
“Among the educated young there is therefore a startling and unprecedented interest in the transformation of human consciousness. All over the Western… — Alan Wilson Watts Buddhism Copy Share Image
“concerns itself with the linguistic, ethical, legal, and ritual conventions which provide the society with its system of communication. Confucianism, in other… — Alan Wilson Watts Communication Copy Share Image
“The morality that goes with this understanding is, above all, the frank recognition of your dependence upon enemies, underlings, out-groups, and, indeed,… — Alan Wilson Watts Character Copy Share Image
“Now as you plumb out into the universe and explore it astronomically, it gets very strange. You begin to see things in… — Alan Wilson Watts First sight Copy Share Image
“In sum, then, I have tried to show that reincarnation has very strong theoretical probability, without resorting to the paranormal evidence and… — Alan Wilson Watts Reincarnation Copy Share Image
“This, then, is the human problem: there is a price to be paid for every increase in consciousness. We cannot be more… — Alan Wilson Watts Consciousness Copy Share Image
“The effects of what are now called psychedelic (mind–manifesting) chemicals differ from those of alcohol as laughter differs from rage or delight… — Alan Wilson Watts Creative act Copy Share Image
“It is fundamental to both Taoist and Confucian thought that the natural man is to be trusted, and from their standpoint it… — Alan Wilson Watts Chinese Copy Share Image
