If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it. — 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
How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy? — 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
You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts… — 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
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
You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear,… — 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
What are we saying when we say now, something is holy? That means you should take a different attitude to what you… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You… — 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
If you love a person, you say to that person, "Look, I love you, whatever that may be. I've seen quite a… — 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
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
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
I can only think seriously of trying to live up to an ideal, to improve myself, if I am split in two… — 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
If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present.… — 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
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
For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere. — 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
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
What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life? — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified.… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
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
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 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
That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could… — 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
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
The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever. — Alan Watts Copy Share
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
...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
The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests. — Alan Watts Copy Share
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
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
“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
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
A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted. — Alan Watts Copy Share
The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind. — Alan Watts Copy Share
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of… — Alan Watts Copy Share
To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch. — Alan Watts Copy Share
