“In this respect, the Chinese written language has a slight advantage over our own, and is perhaps symptomatic of a different way… — Alan Wilson Watts Respect 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 Life 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
“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
“For Lao-tzu’s Taoism is the philosophical equivalent of jujitsu, or judo, which means the way of gentleness. Its basis is the principle… — Alan Wilson Watts Chinese language 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
“According to convention, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally… — Alan Wilson Watts Time Copy Share Image
“Money is a way of measuring wealth but is not wealth in itself. A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet… — Alan Wilson Watts Money 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
“Consider the difference between the two types of globemaps of planet Earth, the physical and the political. The first is a marvelous… — Alan Wilson Watts Outer space 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 Time Copy Share Image
“It is in vain that we can predict and control the course of events in the future, unless we know how to… — Alan Wilson Watts Life Copy Share Image
“Like a mighty army moves the Church of God.” But this is no way for a gentle-man.” — Alan Wilson Watts 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 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
“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
“What is real, if you have decided to live in the dimension of space and time, is muscle and nerve.” — Alan Wilson Watts Space Copy Share Image
“On the one hand, there are people known as straight, regular, square (and there are also cubes and tesseracts), classified, degreed, graduated,… — Alan Wilson Watts 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“Now as you plumb out into the universe and explore it astronomically, it gets very strange. You begin to see things in… — Alan Wilson Watts First sight Copy Share Image
“As soon as we freed ourselves from the mirage of hurrying time—which was nothing more than the projection of our own impatience—we… — Alan Wilson Watts Children Copy Share Image
“Do not suppose, however, that we are merely a society of lotus-eaters, lolling on divans and cuddling lovely women. Ecstasy is something… — Alan Wilson Watts Art Copy Share Image
“Zen Buddhism is a way and a view of life which does not belong to any of the formal categories of modern… — Alan Wilson Watts Buddhism Copy Share Image
“But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives… — Alan Wilson Watts Intelligence Copy Share Image
