And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two… — 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
“Today we hear a lot of songs about love, and the mention of the big love thing on the way. You know… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The problem is to overcome the ingrained disbelief in the power of winning nature by love, in the gentle (ju) way (do)… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness. — 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
Sexual love is a troubled and problematic relationship in cultures where there is a strong sense of man's separation from nature, especially… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion. — 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
