Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Just what should a young man or woman know to be 'in the know'? Is there, in other words, some inside information,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for… — Alan Watts 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 Watts Copy Share Image
If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself. — 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
