Doing things Quote 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…

— 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…

— Alan Watts

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

— 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…

— 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.

— Alan Watts

The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.

— 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,…

— Alan Watts

Everything is perpetually becoming new.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Alan Watts

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

— Alan Watts