Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know… — 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
The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. You cannot talk yourself into it or… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Zen is really extraordinarily simple as long as one doesn't try to be cute about it or beat around the bush! Zen… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I can only think seriously of trying to live up to an ideal, to improve myself, if I am split in two… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
More and more we try to effect an adaptation to life by means of external gadgets, and attempt to solve our problems… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There is only this now. It does not come from anywhere; it is not going anywhere. It is not permanent, but it… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The question "What shall we do about it?" is only asked by those who do not understand the problem. If a problem… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. You cannot talk yourself into it or… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The real reason why human life can be so utterly exasperating and frustrating is not because there are facts called death, pain,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
so, the whole idea, you see, is that everything's falling apart, so don't try and stop it. when you're falling off a… — 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
