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
To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Think about a piece of music - some great symphony - we don't expect it to get better as it develops, or… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use,… — 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
