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
There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I am amazed that Congressmen can pass a bill imposing severe penalties on anyone who burns the American flag, whereas they are… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself… — 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
“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
