You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The question "What shall we do about it?" is only asked by those who do not understand the problem. If a problem… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.”… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs.First,use of these drugs may be dangerous.Howev er,every worth-while exploration is dangerous-climb ing… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
When your eyes are functioning well you don't see your eyes. If your eyes are imperfect you see spots in front of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for… — 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
It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music.… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn't contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use,… — 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
