All Alan Watts Quotes
- All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head. All
- The biggest ego trip going is getting rid of your ego Biggest
- A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool. Body
- If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are… Little
- The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego… Art
- Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will? Any
- It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn. Acorn
- What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life? Enjoy
- You're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process.… Bang
- The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building,… Art
- To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,†you are not listening. Inspirational
- We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves. Consciousness
- Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol... Authentic
- The mind's the standard of the man. Man
- In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy,… Call
- Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and… Activity
- These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco… Beach
- You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe. Begin
- Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified. All
- If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up. Always Wake