The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind. — 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
As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the… — 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
Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Time is a social institution and not a physical reality. There is no such thing as time in the natural world -… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees,… — 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
Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies… — 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
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
I was talking to a Zen master the other day and he said, "You shall be my disciple."I looked at him and… — 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
...for since there is no real 'way' to sartori, the way you are following makes very little difference. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing… — 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
When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you are looking… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space… — 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
