Do you see yourself as a victim of the world, or do you see yourself as the world? — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The anitya doctrine is, again, not quite the simple assertion that the world is impermanent, but rather that the more one grasps… — 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
Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect. — 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
...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing,… — 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… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its… — 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
The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people… — 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
If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or non-human, we must first come to… — 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
If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present.… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You are something that the whole world is doing just as when the sea has waves on it. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this Universe. You didn't come into this world; you came out of it.… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I knew of a physicist at the University of Chicago who was rather crazy like some scientists, and the idea of the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Your world is all these elements. Of light and sound, of taste, smell, and touch, woven together in many dimensions on the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal,… — 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
