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
In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely with this universe. You feel profoundly rooted… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Zen is really extraordinarily simple as long as one doesn't try to be cute about it or beat around the bush! Zen… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its… — 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
So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work,… — 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
Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe. — 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
A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
so, the whole idea, you see, is that everything's falling apart, so don't try and stop it. when you're falling off a… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this Universe. You didn't come into this world; you came out of 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
