“For the trouble with our rich and powerful people is not so much that they are wicked, but that they do not… — Alan Wilson Watts Money Copy Share Image
“you don’t die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are.” — Alan Wilson Watts Birth Copy Share Image
“Thus not to see the unity of self and other is the fear of life, and not to see the unity of… — Alan Wilson Watts Death Copy Share Image
“it just happens, and all happenings are mutually interdependent in a way that seems unbelievably harmonious.” — Alan Wilson Watts Harmonious Copy Share Image
“To define means to fix, and, when you get down to it, real life isn’t fixed.” — Alan Wilson Watts Life Copy Share Image
“What is real, if you have decided to live in the dimension of space and time, is muscle and nerve.” — Alan Wilson Watts Muscle 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
“A successful college president once complained to me, I'm so busy that I'm going to have to get a helicopter! Well, I… — Alan Wilson Watts President 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 Dance Copy Share Image
“So, according to Vedanta, the central doctrine of Hinduism, all bodies are the clothes of the one and only Self in its… — Alan Wilson Watts Hinduism Copy Share Image
“Reasonable–that is, human–men will always be capable of compromise, but men who have dehumanized themselves by becoming the blind worshipers of an… — Alan Wilson Watts Compromise 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 Gestalt 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 Celibate 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 Idol 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
“We have made a problem for ourselves by confusing the intelligible with the fixed. We think that making sense out of life… — Alan Wilson Watts Fixity Copy Share Image
“English the differences between things and actions are clearly, if not always logically, distinguished, but a great number of Chinese words do… — Alan Wilson Watts Chinese Words 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 Continuity Copy Share Image
“Fictions are useful so long as they are taken as fictions. They are then simply ways of "figuring" the world which we… — Alan Wilson Watts Fictions Copy Share Image
“Spencer Brown puts it) once they are discovered, are seen to be extremely simple and obvious, and make everybody, including their discoverer,… — Alan Wilson Watts Foolishness 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 Happens 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
“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
“Suppressing the fear of death makes it all the stronger. The point is only to know, beyond any shadow of doubt, that… — Alan Wilson Watts Afraid of death 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
“They found security in letting go rather than in holding on and, in so doing, developed an attitude toward life that might… — Alan Wilson Watts Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms… — Alan Wilson Watts Identity 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
“Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new… — Alan Wilson Watts Bible 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
“The startling truth is that our best efforts for civil rights, international peace, population control, conservation of natural resources, and assistance to… — Alan Wilson Watts Civil rights Copy Share Image
“The system can be paralyzed in yet another way. Every feedback system needs a margin of “lag” or error. If we try… — Alan Wilson Watts 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 Boot Copy Share Image
“Read Theodore Schwenk’s marvelous book Sensitive Chaos (London, Rudolph Steiner Press, 1965),” — Alan Wilson Watts Rudolph Steiner 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
“it is really impossible to appreciate what is meant by the Tao without becoming, in a rather special sense, stupid.” — Alan Wilson Watts Stupid Copy Share Image
“Like a mighty army moves the Church of God.” But this is no way for a gentle-man.” — Alan Wilson Watts Church Copy Share Image
“We have untold stacks of recorded music from every age and culture, and the most superb means of playing it. But who… — Alan Wilson Watts Music Copy Share Image
“But peace can be made only by those who are peaceful, and love can be shown only by those who love. No… — Alan Wilson Watts Fear Copy Share Image
