All Alan Watts Quotes
- Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. Branch
- Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous… Allowing
- What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself. Deep
- The problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space quite another, or… Apart
- Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space. Inspiring
- There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a… Began
- There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too… Always Something
- You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are. Bang
- The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing. Activity
- Cows scream louder than carrots. Carrots
- Every explicit duality is an implicit unity. Chaos
- When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things. Chaos
- No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen. Amount
- When death comes, it's just like winter. We don't say, "There ought not to be winter." That the winter season, when the leaves fall and… Cold
- We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity. Conned
- Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence. Everyone
- Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes… Alone
- Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe. Energy
- Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless. Gloriously
- The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to… Becomes