--- title: "20 Feels Quotes By Alan Watts" description: "20 Feels quotes by Alan Watts. Plus more from Alan Watts and more Feels sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36d/alan-watts-587_feels_meditation-is-the-way-in-which-we-come-t_1052077.jpg" --- > [Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/meditation-is-the-way-in-which-we-come-to-feel-our-basic/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36d/alan-watts-587_feels_meditation-is-the-way-in-which-we-come-t_1052077.jpg) > [To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/to-feel-that-life-is-meaningless-unless-i-can-be-permanent-is-like/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58b/alan-watts-587_ego_to-feel-that-life-is-meaningless-unless_86569.jpg) > [To feel life is meaningless unless "I" can be permanent is like having desperately fallen in love with an inch.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/to-feel-life-is-meaningless-unless-i-can-be-permanent-is-like-having/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93b/alan-watts-587_ego_to-feel-life-is-meaningless-unless-i-can_242907.jpg) > [To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely one with this universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/to-know-that-you-are-god-is-another-way-of-saying-that-you-feel-2/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/918/alan-watts-587_another-way_to-know-that-you-are-god-is-another-way_2582518.jpg) > [All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/all-that-you-see-out-in-front-of-you-is-how-you-feel-inside-your-head/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54d/alan-watts-587_feels_all-that-you-see-out-in-front-of-you-is_1420222.jpg) > [Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/billions-of-years-ago-you-were-a-big-bang-but-now-you-re-a/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a46/alan-watts-587_bangs_billions-of-years-ago-you-were-a-big-ban_1030071.jpg) > [People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/people-often-say-to-me-i-understand-what-you-are-talking-about/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4fb/alan-watts-587_feels_people-often-say-to-me-i-understand-what_1829283.jpg) > [Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/once-you-ve-learned-to-think-you-can-t-stop-and-an-enormous-number-of/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb7/alan-watts-587_busy_once-you-ve-learned-to-think-you-can-t-s_517447.jpg) > [No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/no-one-imagines-that-a-symphony-is-supposed-to-improve-as-it-goes/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67b/alan-watts-587_every-moment_no-one-imagines-that-a-symphony-is-suppo_1968498.jpg) > [The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-myths-underlying-our-culture-and-underlying-our-common-sense-have/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eae/alan-watts-587_activity_the-myths-underlying-our-culture-and-und_79409.jpg) > [It seems to be the special peculiarity of human beings that they reflect: they think about thinking and know that they know.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/it-seems-to-be-the-special-peculiarity-of-human-beings-that-they/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bf/alan-watts-587_awareness_it-seems-to-be-the-special-peculiarity-o_321191.jpg) > [Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/breathing-is-important-in-the-practice-of-meditation-because-it-is/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f0/alan-watts-587_breathing_breathing-is-important-in-the-practice-o_3035352.jpg) > [I can only think seriously of trying to live up to an ideal, to improve myself, if I am split in two…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/i-can-only-think-seriously-of-trying-to-live-up-to-an-ideal-to/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1b/alan-watts-587_behave_i-can-only-think-seriously-of-trying-to_163007.jpg) > [If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/if-you-awaken-from-this-illusion-and-you-understand-that-black/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56a/alan-watts-587_black_if-you-awaken-from-this-illusion-and-you_3026981.jpg) > [Now, you see, if you understand what I'm saying, with your intelligence, and then take the next step and say "But I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/now-you-see-if-you-understand-what-i-m-saying-with-your-intelligence/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b8/alan-watts-587_feels_now-you-see-if-you-understand-what-i-m-s_1479410.jpg) > [Zen is really extraordinarily simple as long as one doesn't try to be cute about it or beat around the bush! Zen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/zen-is-really-extraordinarily-simple-as-long-as-one-doesn-t-try-to-be/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2da/alan-watts-587_beats_zen-is-really-extraordinarily-simple-as_843915.jpg) > [When your eyes are functioning well you don't see your eyes. If your eyes are imperfect you see spots in front of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/when-your-eyes-are-functioning-well-you-don-t-see-your-eyes-if-your/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/463/alan-watts-587_awe_when-your-eyes-are-functioning-well-you_2529057.jpg) > [When you feel that you are a lonely, put-upon, isolated little stranger confronting all this, you are under the influence of an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/when-you-feel-that-you-are-a-lonely-put-upon-isolated-little-stranger/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f91/alan-watts-587_confronting_when-you-feel-that-you-are-a-lonely-put_2016945.jpg) > [To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely with this universe. You feel profoundly rooted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/to-know-that-you-are-god-is-another-way-of-saying-that-you-feel/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbc/alan-watts-587_another-way_to-know-that-you-are-god-is-another-way_224459.jpg) > [The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-animal-tends-to-eat-with-his-stomach-and-the-man-with-his-brain/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eaa/alan-watts-587_animal_the-animal-tends-to-eat-with-his-stomach_3113284.jpg) ## Other authors on Feels ## More by Alan Watts > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-self-conscious-feedback-mechanism-of-the-cortex-allows-us-the/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clutch water in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-more-we-try-to-catch-hold-of-the-present-moment-the-more-elusive/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-universe-is-the-game-of-the-self-which-plays-hide-and-seek/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/if-my-happiness-at-this-moment-consists-largely-in-reviewing-happy/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [...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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/mysticism-and-empiricism-go-together-in-opposition-to-scholasticism/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-hallucination-of-being-a-separate-ego-will-not-stand-up-to/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/although-profoundly-inconsequential-the-zen-experience-has/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [Everything is perpetually becoming new.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/everything-is-perpetually-becoming-new/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-psychotherapist-tries-to-help-the-individual-to-be-himself-and-to/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [“As you make more and more powerful microscopic instruments, the universe has to get smaller and smaller in order to escape the investigation. Just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/as-you-make-more-and-more-powerful-microscopic-instruments-the/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/we-are-at-the-moment-looking-at-space-as-something-to-be-entered-by/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/a-philosopher-is-a-sort-of-intellectual-yokel-who-gawks-at-things/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-best-way-to-convince-someone-is-by-making-him-realize-that-what/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-myths-underlying-our-culture-and-underlying-our-common-sense-have/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/to-feel-that-life-is-meaningless-unless-i-can-be-permanent-is-like/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/feels/alan-watts/#itemlist", "name": "20 Feels Quotes By Alan Watts", "numberOfItems": 20, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Meditation is the way 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