All Alan Watts Quotes
- Thought is a means of concealing Truth. Concealing
- If you belong to an in-group of good, or saved, or elite people, you can only know that you’re in because someone else is out.… Belong
- Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely… Busy
- Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is. Advantageous
- Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water†is a noise… Certain
- There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day. Calm
- Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown… Abandoned
- Do you define yourself as a victim of the world? Or, as the world? Define
- The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss." Chinese
- The 'you' who you think you are does not exist. Doe
- Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality... Everybody
- We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of… Art
- Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut… Basic
- Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is. Affair
- The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for. Guru
- The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it… Bad
- There are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs.First,use of these drugs may be dangerous.Howev er,every worth-while exploration is dangerous-climb ing mountains,testi ng aircraft,rocket… Actual
- The world is a marvelous system of wiggles. Funny
- The wake doesn't drive the ship Drive
- Time is a social institution and not a physical reality. There is no such thing as time in the natural world - the world of… Biological