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
To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch. — 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
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
To feel life is meaningless unless "I" can be permanent is like having desperately fallen in love with an inch. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
It seems to be the special peculiarity of human beings that they reflect: they think about thinking and know that they know.… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy… — 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
Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Now, you see, if you understand what I'm saying, with your intelligence, and then take the next step and say "But I… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is… — 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
When your eyes are functioning well you don't see your eyes. If your eyes are imperfect you see spots in front of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely one with this universe. — 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
Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops… — 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
