In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also… — 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
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“...behind the scene, under the surface of reality, you are all actors, marvelously skilled at playing parts and in getting lost in… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us. — 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
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
Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery. — 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
