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 Image
When death comes, it's just like winter. We don't say, "There ought not to be winter." That the winter season, when the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. — 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
In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To feel life is meaningless unless "I" can be permanent is like having desperately fallen in love with an inch. — 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
Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To the Taoist mentality, the aimless, empty life does not suggest anything depressing. On the contrary, it suggests the freedom of clouds… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call "here and now," and you are something… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal,… — 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
Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do. — 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
