The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now.… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water”… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“There is simply no problem of life; it is absolutely purposeless play; it doesn't have to continue; there is no reason whatever… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God,… — 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
When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play! — 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
