The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“There is simply no problem of life; it is absolutely purposeless play; it doesn't have to continue; there is no reason whatever… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now. — 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
Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others. They do not belong… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“Carried to its final extreme, the logical end of this type of reaction to life is suicide. The hard-bitten kind of person… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency. — 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
For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The real reason why human life can be so utterly exasperating and frustrating is not because there are facts called death, pain,… — 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
For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself. — 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
