“Like a mighty army moves the Church of God.” But this is no way for a gentle-man.” — Alan Wilson Watts Church Copy Share Image
“we are convinced that sleep is a waste of valuable time and continue to chase these fantasies far into the night.” — Alan Wilson Watts Sleep Copy Share Image
“Read Theodore Schwenk’s marvelous book Sensitive Chaos (London, Rudolph Steiner Press, 1965),” — Alan Wilson Watts Rudolph Steiner Copy Share Image
“it is really impossible to appreciate what is meant by the Tao without becoming, in a rather special sense, stupid.” — Alan Wilson Watts Stupid Copy Share Image
“I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of "goo.” — Alan Wilson Watts Philosophy Copy Share Image
“My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.” — Alan Wilson Watts Death Copy Share Image
“What is real, if you have decided to live in the dimension of space and time, is muscle and nerve.” — Alan Wilson Watts Muscle Copy Share Image
“Thus not to see the unity of self and other is the fear of life, and not to see the unity of… — Alan Wilson Watts Death Copy Share Image
“Real freedom cannot exist alongside false freedom, but the abandonment of false freedom looks as if it would leave you as good… — Alan Wilson Watts Freedom Copy Share Image
“The future is unknown. Prophecy contaminates it with the past, which is why liberated people do not bother with fortunetelling or astrology,… — Alan Wilson Watts Prophecy Copy Share Image
“But peace can be made only by those who are peaceful, and love can be shown only by those who love. No… — Alan Wilson Watts Fear Copy Share Image
“In the Gestalt theory of perception this is known as the figure/ground relationship. This theory asserts, in brief, that no figure is… — Alan Wilson Watts Gestalt Copy Share Image
“So, according to Vedanta, the central doctrine of Hinduism, all bodies are the clothes of the one and only Self in its… — Alan Wilson Watts Hinduism Copy Share Image
“When you no longer make the distinction between the universe and how you are acting upon it, you are really on your… — Alan Wilson Watts Responsibility Copy Share Image
“Idolatry is not the use of images, but confusing them with what they represent, and in this respect mental images and lofty… — Alan Wilson Watts Idol Copy Share Image
“The common mistake of the religious celibate has been to suppose that the highest spiritual life absolutely demands the renunciation of sexuality,… — Alan Wilson Watts Celibate 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
“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
“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
“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 Time Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“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
“But this is at the same time a vivid way of saying that your soul, or rather your essential Self, is the… — Alan Wilson Watts Soul 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new… — Alan Wilson Watts Bible 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 Wilson Watts Expectation Copy Share Image
“What is government? Government is the boot. The boot steps here and there, careful to avoid a blade of grass, to nurture… — Alan Wilson Watts Boot Copy Share Image
“you don’t die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are.” — Alan Wilson Watts Birth Copy Share Image
“We do not dance to reach a certain point on the floor, but simply to dance. Energy itself, as William Blake said,… — Alan Wilson Watts Dance Copy Share Image
“For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which… — Alan Wilson Watts Life Copy Share Image
“The more we accustom ourselves to understanding the present in terms of memory, the unknown by the known, the living by the… — Alan Wilson Watts Fear Copy Share Image
“But Taoism must on no account be understood as a revolution against convention, although it has sometimes been used as a pretext… — Alan Wilson Watts Heaven and earth Copy Share Image
“Spencer Brown puts it) once they are discovered, are seen to be extremely simple and obvious, and make everybody, including their discoverer,… — Alan Wilson Watts Foolishness Copy Share Image
“I know, then, that after I die other bodies, other eyeings, will be born. But this is really the same thing as… — Alan Wilson Watts Death Copy Share Image
