All Alan Watts Quotes
- You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you would on dry… Behave
- The hostile attitude of conquering nature ignores the basic interdependence of all things and events--that the world beyond the skin is actually an extension of… All
- If you love a person, you say to that person, "Look, I love you, whatever that may be. I've seen quite a bit of it… Bird
- A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is stable, for the… Air
- The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions… Definitions
- We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we… Almost Makes
- We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated… Consciousness
- By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives… Accepting
- "It is essential to understand this point thoroughly: that the thing-in-itself, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral, is not only unknowable-it does not exist. This is… Animal
- The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, light doesn't illuminate itself.… Burn
- Everybody is I, you all know you are you. And wheresoever's beings exist throughout all galaxies it doesn't any difference. You are all of them,… All
- If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no… Die
- When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous,… Certain
- Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we… Eternal
- Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything. Conventions
- The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which… Belongs
- To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it. Convention
- The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love. Actually Killing
- Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself. Convinced
- Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this… All