“Where there is to be creative action, it is quite beside the point to discuss what we should or should not do… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“The discovery of this reality is hindered rather than helped by belief, whether one believes in God or believes in atheism. We… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“The centipede was happy, quite, Until a toad in fun Said, “Pray, which leg goes after which?” This worked his mind to… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“Ye suffer from yourselves, none else compels, None other holds you that ye live and die And whir upon the wheel, and… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share
“The common mistake of the religious celibate has been to suppose that the highest spiritual life absolutely demands the renunciation of sexuality, as if… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“Real freedom cannot exist alongside false freedom, but the abandonment of false freedom looks as if it would leave you as good as dead.… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“But it is not that you are something which is just watching what happens. “What happens” is just using your organism to watch itself.… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“Read Theodore Schwenk’s marvelous book Sensitive Chaos (London, Rudolph Steiner Press, 1965),” — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“Idolatry is not the use of images, but confusing them with what they represent, and in this respect mental images and lofty abstractions can… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“The more we accustom ourselves to understanding the present in terms of memory, the unknown by the known, the living by the dead, the… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“We do not dance to reach a certain point on the floor, but simply to dance. Energy itself, as William Blake said, is eternal… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“Thought and science are therefore raising problems which their terms of study can never answer, many of which are doubtless problems only for thought.… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“But this is at the same time a vivid way of saying that your soul, or rather your essential Self, is the whole cosmos… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“When you no longer make the distinction between the universe and how you are acting upon it, you are really on your own and… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.” — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
