You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known… — 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're looking deep… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
When your eyes are functioning well you don't see your eyes. If your eyes are imperfect you see spots in front of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely one with this universe. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music.… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The problem is to overcome the ingrained disbelief in the power of winning nature by love, in the gentle (ju) way (do)… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We accepted a definition of ourselves which confined the self to the source and to the limitations of conscious attention. This definition… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which… — 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
