“When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of … Nothing is left but… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“There is simply no problem of life; it is absolutely purposeless play; it doesn't have to continue; there is no reason whatever… — 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
By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I knew of a physicist at the University of Chicago who was rather crazy like some scientists, and the idea of the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The real reason why human life can be so utterly exasperating and frustrating is not because there are facts called death, pain,… — 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
