As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or non-human, we must first come to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there...You're looking at you. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way,… — 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
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 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
