“But this is at the same time a vivid way of saying that your soul, or rather your essential Self, is the… — Alan Wilson 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 Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“The future is unknown. Prophecy contaminates it with the past, which is why liberated people do not bother with fortunetelling or astrology,… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“This, then, is the human problem: there is a price to be paid for every increase in consciousness. We cannot be more… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“we are convinced that sleep is a waste of valuable time and continue to chase these fantasies far into the night.” — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“According to convention, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“Fictions are useful so long as they are taken as fictions. They are then simply ways of "figuring" the world which we… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“It is in vain that we can predict and control the course of events in the future, unless we know how to… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“What is real, if you have decided to live in the dimension of space and time, is muscle and nerve.” — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“As soon as we freed ourselves from the mirage of hurrying time—which was nothing more than the projection of our own impatience—we… — 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… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“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
