We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that… — 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
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize… — 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
Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most… — Alan 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 Watts Copy Share Image
You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
What we need to realize is that there can be, shall we say, a movement, a stirring among people, which can be… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws… — 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
