Meditation Quotes by Alan Watts

In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

— Alan Watts

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

— Alan Watts

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.

— Alan Watts

The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."

— Alan Watts

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.

— Alan Watts

To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.

— Alan Watts

If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.

— Alan Watts

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

— Alan Watts

The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without…

— Alan Watts

That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could…

— Alan Watts

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

— Alan Watts

This is what Zen means by being detached—not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky…

— Alan Watts

There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music.…

— Alan Watts

Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is…

— Alan Watts

Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various…

— Alan Watts

Zen is really extraordinarily simple as long as one doesn't try to be cute about it or beat around the bush! Zen…

— Alan Watts

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly…

— Alan Watts

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

Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You…

— Alan Watts

We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore…

— Alan Watts

Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair…

— Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable…

— Alan Watts

Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me…

— Alan Watts

We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other…

— Alan Watts

If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present.…

— Alan Watts

The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it…

— Alan Watts