Best Alan Watts Qoutes
- In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone… Aggressive
- The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always… Effort
- The menu is not the meal. Human Nature
- You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole… Function
- You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself. Aperture
- Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end,"… Answering
- Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. Alone
- Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every… Deepest
- To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people… Application
- The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion. Animal
- It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it… All
- People become concerned with being more humble than other people. Become Concerned
- A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I… Across
- The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being… Art
- The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless. Human Nature
- Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice,… Advice
- Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening… Eternal
- I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination. Bag
- The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years. Blooms
- Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the… All
- We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and… Emotion
- This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of… Calling
- Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to… Go
- A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily. Buddhism
- I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium Crematorium