“For every sentient being is God—omnipotent, omniscient, infinite, and eternal—pretending with the utmost sincerity and determination to be otherwise, to be a… — Alan W. Watts Death Copy Share Image
“In sum, then, te is the unthinkable ingenuity and creative power of man’s spontaneous and natural functioning–a power which is blocked when… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“Herein lies the crux of the matter. To stand face to face with insecurity is still not to understand it. To understand… — Alan W. Watts Face to face Copy Share Image
“Nothing unites a community so much as common cause against an external enemy, yet, in the same moment, that enemy becomes the… — Alan W. Watts Community Copy Share Image
“We must go to the roots of a problem and not invest too much energy fiddling with the symptoms. We shall never… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“In certain natures, the conflict between social convention and repressed spontaneity is so violent that it manifests itself in crime, insanity, and… — Alan W. Watts Crime Copy Share Image
“Trust in human nature is acceptance of the good-and-bad of it, and it is hard to trust those who do not admit… — Alan W. Watts Hard to trust Copy Share Image
“[W] are belatedly realizing that the ill-treatment of the environment is damage to ourselves - for the simple reason that the subject… — Alan W. Watts Environment Copy Share Image
“While it is true that these arts employ what are, to us, highly difficult technical disciplines, it is always recognized that they… — Alan W. Watts Art Copy Share Image
“This is a way of saying that our deepest spiritual, religious, and psychological problems are extremely simple. Just go out and look… — Alan W. Watts Religion Copy Share Image
“[I]n trying to figure out the brain, the obstacle is that we have no finer instrument than the brain itself for the… — Alan W. Watts Knowledge Copy Share Image
“The universe is everlasting. The reason that the universe is everlasting is that it does not live for itself. Therefore it lasts.… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“[L]ife is a system of geological and biological cooperation. Certainly, the system contains fights: birds against worms, snails against lettuce, and spiders… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for… — Alan W. Watts Time Copy Share Image
“Protogenesis The Seven Secret Sayings of God Before athe beginning when God created the heaven and the earth, and the earth was… — Alan W. Watts Nature Copy Share Image
“[E]very individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. To manifest individuality,… — Alan W. Watts Identity Copy Share Image
“[W]hat is ordinarily felt as the wayward, unpredictable, dangerous, and even hostile world - including one's capricious emotions and inner feelings -… — Alan W. Watts Inner feelings Copy Share Image
“The senses, feelings, and thoughts must be allowed to be spontaneous in the faith that they will then order themselves harmoniously. To… — Alan W. Watts Faith Copy Share Image
“we carry thisx effort beyond a certain point, however, our manipulations interfere with the very course of nature, and this gets us… — Alan W. Watts Nature Copy Share Image
“The energy and material which we have all squandered on making war since even 1914 could have warmed, fed, and clothed everyone… — Alan W. Watts Patriotism Copy Share Image
“To abandon the idea of separation from and submission to God has always been feared as a threat to morals, but there… — Alan W. Watts Chain of command Copy Share Image
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