The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely with this universe. You feel profoundly rooted… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call "here and now," and you are something… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To define is to limit, to set boundaries, to compare and to contrast, and for this reason, the universe, the all, seems… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God… — 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
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end… — 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
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy? — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
For when you see that the universe cannot be distinguished from how you act upon it, there is neither fate nor free… — 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
You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. — 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
