The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me… — 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
Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives. As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves. The brain… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing… — 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
