Psychology Quotes by Alan Watts

19 Psychology quotes by Alan Watts

Alan Watts’ musings on the mind blend Eastern philosophy with Western wit. Across 19 quotes, he unpacks how we construct reality, encouraging a playful yet profound re‑examination of self‑identity.

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The mind's the standard of the man.

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By going out of your mind, you come to your senses

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When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to…

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We all need to go out of our minds at least once a day. When we go out of our minds we…

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I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.

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To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come…

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When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

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Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

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Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a…

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Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy…

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But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to…

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The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second…

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this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity…

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

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Belief…is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or (will or) wish to be…Faith is an unreserved opening of…

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To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to…

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Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would "lief" or wish it to…

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“The self-conscious feedback mechanism of the cortex allows us the hallucination that we are two souls in one body -a rational soul…

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Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use,…

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...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.

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The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.

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