When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We all need to go out of our minds at least once a day. When we go out of our minds we… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music.… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to… — 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
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
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
“The self-conscious feedback mechanism of the cortex allows us the hallucination that we are two souls in one body -a rational soul… — 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
