Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable… — 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
It seems to be the special peculiarity of human beings that they reflect: they think about thinking and know that they know.… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
However much I may be impressed by the difference between a star and the dark space around it, I must not forget… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If you love a person, you say to that person, "Look, I love you, whatever that may be. I've seen quite a… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would "lief" or wish it to… — 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
Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs.First,use of these drugs may be dangerous.Howev er,every worth-while exploration is dangerous-climb ing… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The Chinese word Li may therefore be understood as organic order, as distinct from mechanical or legal order, both of which go… — 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
Belief…is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or (will or) wish to be…Faith is an unreserved opening 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
