“Thus not to see the unity of self and other is the fear of life, and not to see the unity of… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“The death of the individual is not disconnection but simply withdrawal. The corpse is like a footprint or an echo—the dissolving trace… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“Man as an organism is to the world outside like a whirlpool is to a river: man and world are a single… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“The precious … uniqueness which the human individual claims is conferred on him not by possession of an immortal soul but by possession of… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“You think there's a real difference between 'self' and 'other.' But 'self,' what you call yourself, and what you call 'other' are… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Read Theodore Schwenk’s marvelous book Sensitive Chaos (London, Rudolph Steiner Press, 1965),” — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.” — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
