The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. — 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
In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love. — 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
If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them. — 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
Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or… — 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
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
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 power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real,… — 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
It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice… — 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
We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Someone once described “Christian Secularism” as the assumption that there is nothing at all to life except a pilgrimage between the maternity… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of… — 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
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
When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly… — 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
What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its… — 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
There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. You cannot talk yourself into it or… — 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
“For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people,are merely tubes which put… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself. — 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
There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now.… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
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
To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely… — 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
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
“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
