Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
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 tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is… — 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… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you… — 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
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
Everybody is I, you all know you are you. And wheresoever's beings exist throughout all galaxies it doesn't any difference. You are… — 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.… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us. — 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
this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“Although the rhythm of the waves beats a kind of time, it is not clock or calendar time. It has no urgency.… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no… — 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
