Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To the Taoist mentality, the aimless, empty life does not suggest anything depressing. On the contrary, it suggests the freedom of clouds… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up? — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
"It is essential to understand this point thoroughly: that the thing-in-itself, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral, is not only unknowable-it does not… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives. As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves. The brain… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness. — 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
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
“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
