The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I can only think seriously of trying to live up to an ideal, to improve myself, if I am split in two… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
This is what Zen means by being detached—not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life. — 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
For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
When you feel that you are a lonely, put-upon, isolated little stranger confronting all this, you are under the influence of an… — 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
It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and… — 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
