“Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, open-ness—an act of trust in the unknown. An ardent Jehovah’s… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share
“The common mistake of the religious celibate has been to suppose that the highest spiritual life absolutely demands the renunciation of sexuality, as if… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share
“Real freedom cannot exist alongside false freedom, but the abandonment of false freedom looks as if it would leave you as good as dead.… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share
“But it is not that you are something which is just watching what happens. “What happens” is just using your organism to watch itself.… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share
“Read Theodore Schwenk’s marvelous book Sensitive Chaos (London, Rudolph Steiner Press, 1965),” — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share
“Idolatry is not the use of images, but confusing them with what they represent, and in this respect mental images and lofty abstractions can… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share
“The more we accustom ourselves to understanding the present in terms of memory, the unknown by the known, the living by the dead, the… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share
“We do not dance to reach a certain point on the floor, but simply to dance. Energy itself, as William Blake said, is eternal… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share
“Thought and science are therefore raising problems which their terms of study can never answer, many of which are doubtless problems only for thought.… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share
“But this is at the same time a vivid way of saying that your soul, or rather your essential Self, is the whole cosmos… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share
“When you no longer make the distinction between the universe and how you are acting upon it, you are really on your own and… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share
“My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.” — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share
“I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of "goo.” — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share
“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share
“Where there is to be creative action, it is quite beside the point to discuss what we should or should not do in order… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share
