Flat Bohemians Quotes by Alan Wilson Watts

“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“The common mistake of the religious celibate has been to suppose that the highest spiritual life absolutely demands the renunciation of sexuality, as if…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“Real freedom cannot exist alongside false freedom, but the abandonment of false freedom looks as if it would leave you as good as dead.…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“But it is not that you are something which is just watching what happens. “What happens” is just using your organism to watch itself.…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“Read Theodore Schwenk’s marvelous book Sensitive Chaos (London, Rudolph Steiner Press, 1965),”

— Alan Wilson Watts

“Idolatry is not the use of images, but confusing them with what they represent, and in this respect mental images and lofty abstractions can…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“The more we accustom ourselves to understanding the present in terms of memory, the unknown by the known, the living by the dead, the…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“We do not dance to reach a certain point on the floor, but simply to dance. Energy itself, as William Blake said, is eternal…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“Thought and science are therefore raising problems which their terms of study can never answer, many of which are doubtless problems only for thought.…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“But this is at the same time a vivid way of saying that your soul, or rather your essential Self, is the whole cosmos…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“When you no longer make the distinction between the universe and how you are acting upon it, you are really on your own and…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.”

— Alan Wilson Watts