To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
But, as Douglas E Harding has pointed out, we tend to think of this planet as a life-infested rock, which is as… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy? — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To perceive that form reveals the void, and to see that the void reveals form, is the secret for the overcoming of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The Chinese word Li may therefore be understood as organic order, as distinct from mechanical or legal order, both of which go… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
All I'm saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is… — 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
