Water Quotes by Alan Watts

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

— Alan Watts

You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

— Alan Watts

This is what Zen means by being detached—not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky…

— Alan Watts

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing…

— Alan Watts

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

The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is…

— Alan Watts

As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores…

— Alan Watts

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water”…

— Alan Watts

You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you…

— Alan Watts

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if…

— Alan Watts

Time is a social institution and not a physical reality. There is no such thing as time in the natural world -…

— Alan Watts

What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way,…

— Alan Watts

A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is…

— Alan Watts

The Chinese word Li may therefore be understood as organic order, as distinct from mechanical or legal order, both of which go…

— Alan Watts

We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the…

— Alan Watts