All Alan Watts Quotes
- If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly. Always Find
- We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us. Differentiation
- So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the… Able
- And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of… Bodies
- The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it,… Alien
- 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