All Alan Watts Quotes
- What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a… Absurd
- Belief…is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or (will or) wish to be…Faith is an unreserved opening of the mind to… Any
- But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It… Acquisitive
- Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content. Attractively
- Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way. Asked
- Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two… Centuries
- But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my"… Action
- One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is… Act
- If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of… Cannot Even
- Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun. Buddhism
- Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re… Blasphemous
- Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior. Atheism
- One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt. Anxiety
- And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning,… All
- But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. Blot
- There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said. Adequately
- What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all… All
- The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in… Achieve
- The source of all light is in the eye. All
- In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself. Forget