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
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. If you awaken… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We accepted a definition of ourselves which confined the self to the source and to the limitations of conscious attention. This definition… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as… — 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
