“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death… — Alan Wilson Watts Bird flying Copy Share Image
“The common mistake of the religious celibate has been to suppose that the highest spiritual life absolutely demands the renunciation of sexuality,… — Alan Wilson Watts Failure Copy Share Image
“Real freedom cannot exist alongside false freedom, but the abandonment of false freedom looks as if it would leave you as good… — Alan Wilson Watts Freedom Copy Share Image
“But it is not that you are something which is just watching what happens. “What happens” is just using your organism to… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“Read Theodore Schwenk’s marvelous book Sensitive Chaos (London, Rudolph Steiner Press, 1965),” — Alan Wilson Watts Rudolph Steiner Copy Share Image
“Idolatry is not the use of images, but confusing them with what they represent, and in this respect mental images and lofty… — Alan Wilson Watts Respect Copy Share Image
“The more we accustom ourselves to understanding the present in terms of memory, the unknown by the known, the living by the… — Alan Wilson Watts Fear Copy Share Image
“We do not dance to reach a certain point on the floor, but simply to dance. Energy itself, as William Blake said,… — Alan Wilson Watts Energy Copy Share Image
“Thought and science are therefore raising problems which their terms of study can never answer, many of which are doubtless problems only… — Alan Wilson Watts Education Copy Share Image
“But this is at the same time a vivid way of saying that your soul, or rather your essential Self, is the… — Alan Wilson Watts Spirituality Copy Share Image
“When you no longer make the distinction between the universe and how you are acting upon it, you are really on your… — Alan Wilson Watts Responsibility Copy Share Image
“My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.” — Alan Wilson Watts Death Copy Share Image
“I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of "goo.” — Alan Wilson Watts Philosophy Copy Share Image
“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as… — Alan Wilson Watts Expectation Copy Share Image
“Where there is to be creative action, it is quite beside the point to discuss what we should or should not do… — Alan Wilson Watts Creative act Copy Share Image
“I know, then, that after I die other bodies, other eyeings, will be born. But this is really the same thing as… — Alan Wilson Watts Death Copy Share Image
“The future is unknown. Prophecy contaminates it with the past, which is why liberated people do not bother with fortunetelling or astrology,… — Alan Wilson Watts Time Copy Share Image
“This, then, is the human problem: there is a price to be paid for every increase in consciousness. We cannot be more… — Alan Wilson Watts Fear of the unknown Copy Share Image
“In the Gestalt theory of perception this is known as the figure/ground relationship. This theory asserts, in brief, that no figure is… — Alan Wilson Watts Philosophy of Mind Copy Share Image
“But Taoism must on no account be understood as a revolution against convention, although it has sometimes been used as a pretext… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“The effects of what are now called psychedelic (mind–manifesting) chemicals differ from those of alcohol as laughter differs from rage or delight… — Alan Wilson Watts Creative act Copy Share Image
“For the coherent continuity of any one individual is much like a whirlpool in a river; it is “there” day after day,… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which… — Alan Wilson Watts Life Copy Share Image
“What is government? Government is the boot. The boot steps here and there, careful to avoid a blade of grass, to nurture… — Alan Wilson Watts Politics Copy Share Image
“we are convinced that sleep is a waste of valuable time and continue to chase these fantasies far into the night.” — Alan Wilson Watts Sleep Copy Share Image
