Alan Watts Quote by Alan Watts Download Open image ““You don't have to let go, because there's nothing to hold onto. --Alan Watts”” — Alan Watts ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alan Watts
“I hold on to him longer than is necessary, but then I let him go. Of course I let him go; there’s no other… — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
“One of the first things we have to let go of is not being able to let go of anybody.” — Merrit Malloy Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's not what we hold on to that shapes our lives--it's what we're willing to let go of.” — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
“shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never lesrned how to hold on?” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Sometimes letting go is the only way to find out who you're meant to hold on to.” — J. Sterling 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
“The Copenhagen Interpretation is sometimes called "model agnosticism" and holds that any grid we use to organize our experience of the world is a… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Alan Watts famously said: Forget the money, because if you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your… — Vishen Lakhiani Copy Share Image
Just remember your thoughts are not yours. They're influenced by society and the opinion of other people. Remember, your thoughts came from nothing like… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
It wasn't until after I'd been around Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts, that I started to reflect about issues like the evolution… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“According to Freudian psychology, the ego is that part of us that allows us to correctly perceive external reality and function well in everyday… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
The late British-born philosopher Alan Watts, in one of his wonderful lectures on eastern philosophy, used this analogy: "If I draw a circle, most… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Alan Watts, the Buddhist scholar, proposed the existence of a mental faculty he called forgettory, which is the flip side of memory. There are… — Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
“the ten thousand things To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten… — Miriam Louis Copy Share Image
“The philosopher Alan Watts, were he alive today, would nod knowingly when told of that experiment. Watts once said, “Only bad music has any… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience…It’s… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“the philosopher Alan Watts used to refer to as “the backwards law”—the idea that the more you pursue feeling better all the time, the… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“I’ll give you a minute to unpretzel your brain and maybe read that again: Wanting positive experience is a negative experience; accepting negative experience… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
