The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
What are we saying when we say now, something is holy? That means you should take a different attitude to what you… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
For when you see that the universe cannot be distinguished from how you act upon it, there is neither fate nor free… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you are looking… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you're looking deep… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different,… — 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 Image
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 Image
The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever. — 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. I shall… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
...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 Image
The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests. — 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 human activity,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image