All Alan Watts Quotes
- Chaos is always losing, but never defeated Always Losing
- Black implies white self implies other Black
- Just what should a young man or woman know to be 'in the know'? Is there, in other words, some inside information, some special taboo,… Existence
- What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born. Born
- The future is a concept, it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That's… Always Now
- Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present. Alike
- What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of… Air
- To feel life is meaningless unless "I" can be permanent is like having desperately fallen in love with an inch. Desperately
- Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up? Doe
- They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made… Enlightened
- It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I". Completely
- Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Accept
- Truly great companies are built on ideals, not just deals. Accountability
- We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness. Accountability
- You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are. God
- Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown. Act
- The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the… Bad
- To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen. Caught
- In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness. Considered
- And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize that it is… Aware