Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable… — 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
As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that… — 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
...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on… — 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
If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or non-human, we must first come to… — 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
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
What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
It is also in despair of being able to understand or make any productive contribution to the highly organised chaos of our… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The real reason why human life can be so utterly exasperating and frustrating is not because there are facts called death, pain,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are… — 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
