--- title: "22 Whole Quotes By Alan Watts" description: "22 Whole quotes by Alan Watts. Plus more from Alan Watts and more Whole sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/672/alan-watts-587_meditation_the-whole-point-of-zen-is-to-suspend-the_2876589.jpg" --- > [The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-whole-point-of-zen-is-to-suspend-the-rules-we-have-superimposed/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/672/alan-watts-587_meditation_the-whole-point-of-zen-is-to-suspend-the_2876589.jpg) > [No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/no-one-s-mouth-is-big-enough-to-utter-the-whole-thing/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93c/alan-watts-587_bigs_no-one-s-mouth-is-big-enough-to-utter-th_1983452.jpg) > [You are something that the whole world is doing just as when the sea has waves on it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/you-are-something-that-the-whole-world-is-doing-just-as-when-the-sea/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/775/alan-watts-587_sea_you-are-something-that-the-whole-world-i_1792050.jpg) > [A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/a-holy-person-is-someone-who-is-whole-who-has-as-it-were-reconciled/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea5/alan-watts-587_holy_a-holy-person-is-someone-who-is-whole-wh_342517.jpg) > [The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-real-you-is-not-a-puppet-that-life-pushes-around-the-real-deep/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d68/alan-watts-587_deep_the-real-you-is-not-a-puppet-that-life-p_2272645.jpg) > [Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/religion-is-not-a-department-of-life-it-is-something-that-enters-into/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fdd/alan-watts-587_department_religion-is-not-a-department-of-life-it_1137419.jpg) > [Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/meditation-is-the-way-in-which-we-come-to-feel-our-basic/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36d/alan-watts-587_feels_meditation-is-the-way-in-which-we-come-t_1052077.jpg) > [The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-individual-may-be-understood-as-one-particular-focal-point-at/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b40/alan-watts-587_focal-point_the-individual-may-be-understood-as-one_2287363.jpg) > [...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-whole-universe-is-through-and-through-the-playing-of-love-in/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fcb/alan-watts-587_animal_the-whole-universe-is-through-and-throug_1749262.jpg) > [You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/you-will-begin-to-realize-that-if-you-contemplate-long-enough-on-the/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fab/alan-watts-587_contemplating_you-will-begin-to-realize-that-if-you-co_1665893.jpg) > [Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/just-as-the-ocean-is-waving-so-each-one-of-us-is-a-waving-of-the/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e1/alan-watts-587_astronomy_just-as-the-ocean-is-waving-so-each-one_1210421.jpg) > [Think about a piece of music - some great symphony - we don't expect it to get better as it develops, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/think-about-a-piece-of-music-some-great-symphony-we-don-t-expect-it/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d9/alan-watts-587_crescendo_think-about-a-piece-of-music-some-great_1242417.jpg) > [Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/nothing-is-more-creative-than-death-since-it-has-the-whole-secret-of/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e6/alan-watts-587_abandoned_nothing-is-more-creative-than-death-sinc_887020.jpg) > [What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call "here and now," and you are something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/what-you-do-is-what-the-whole-universe-is-doing-at-the-place-you-call/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ad/alan-watts-587_deep-down_what-you-do-is-what-the-whole-universe-i_424194.jpg) > [The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-whole-process-of-nature-is-an-integrated-process-of-immense/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/855/alan-watts-587_complexity_the-whole-process-of-nature-is-an-integr_971898.jpg) > [In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/in-hindu-philosophy-the-whole-creation-is-regarded-as-the-vishnu-lila/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/565/alan-watts-587_creation_in-hindu-philosophy-the-whole-creation-i_146951.jpg) > [The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-fools-standpoint-is-that-all-social-institutions-are-games-he/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/550/alan-watts-587_expression_the-fools-standpoint-is-that-all-social_548060.jpg) > [The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-sound-of-the-rain-needs-no-translation-in-music-one-doesn-t-make/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b65/alan-watts-587_aim_the-sound-of-the-rain-needs-no-translati_377362.jpg) > [When you feel that you are a lonely, put-upon, isolated little stranger confronting all this, you are under the influence of an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/when-you-feel-that-you-are-a-lonely-put-upon-isolated-little-stranger/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f91/alan-watts-587_confronting_when-you-feel-that-you-are-a-lonely-put_2016945.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/so-the-whole-idea-you-see-is-that-everything-s-falling-apart-so-don-t/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/285/alan-watts-587_able_so-the-whole-idea-you-see-is-that-everyt_2548905.jpg) > [To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely with this universe. You feel profoundly rooted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/to-know-that-you-are-god-is-another-way-of-saying-that-you-feel/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbc/alan-watts-587_another-way_to-know-that-you-are-god-is-another-way_224459.jpg) > [What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/what-are-plants-doing-what-are-plants-all-about-they-serve-human/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cc/alan-watts-587_air_what-are-plants-doing-what-are-plants-al_1653670.jpg) ## Other authors on Whole ## More by Alan Watts > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-self-conscious-feedback-mechanism-of-the-cortex-allows-us-the/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clutch water in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-more-we-try-to-catch-hold-of-the-present-moment-the-more-elusive/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-universe-is-the-game-of-the-self-which-plays-hide-and-seek/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/if-my-happiness-at-this-moment-consists-largely-in-reviewing-happy/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [...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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/mysticism-and-empiricism-go-together-in-opposition-to-scholasticism/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-hallucination-of-being-a-separate-ego-will-not-stand-up-to/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/although-profoundly-inconsequential-the-zen-experience-has/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [Everything is perpetually becoming new.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/everything-is-perpetually-becoming-new/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-psychotherapist-tries-to-help-the-individual-to-be-himself-and-to/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [“As you make more and more powerful microscopic instruments, the universe has to get smaller and smaller in order to escape the investigation. Just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/as-you-make-more-and-more-powerful-microscopic-instruments-the/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/we-are-at-the-moment-looking-at-space-as-something-to-be-entered-by/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/a-philosopher-is-a-sort-of-intellectual-yokel-who-gawks-at-things/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-best-way-to-convince-someone-is-by-making-him-realize-that-what/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-myths-underlying-our-culture-and-underlying-our-common-sense-have/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) > [To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/to-feel-that-life-is-meaningless-unless-i-can-be-permanent-is-like/) [Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/whole/alan-watts/#itemlist", "name": "22 Whole Quotes By Alan Watts", "numberOfItems": 22, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The whole point of 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