At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified.… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.”… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“There is simply no problem of life; it is absolutely purposeless play; it doesn't have to continue; there is no reason whatever… — 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
