“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
“But you cannot understand life and its mysteries as long as you try to grasp it. Indeed, you cannot grasp it, just… — Alan Wilson Watts Life Copy Share Image
“when somebody plays music, you listen. you just follow those sounds, and eventually you understand the music. the point can't be explained… — Alan Wilson Watts Eastern philosophy 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
“According to tradition, the originator of Taoism, Lao-tzu, was an older contemporary of Kung Fu-tzu, or Confucius, who died in 479 B.C.1… — Alan Wilson Watts Books 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
“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
“The way of Wisdom lies, therefore, in recognizing things which happen to you as your own karma—not as punishments for misdeeds or… — Alan Wilson Watts Character 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
“The death of the individual is not disconnection but simply withdrawal. The corpse is like a footprint or an echo—the dissolving trace… — Alan Wilson Watts Death 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
“In sum, then, I have tried to show that reincarnation has very strong theoretical probability, without resorting to the paranormal evidence and… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“A particularly significant example of brain against body, or measures against matter, is urban man’s total slavery to clocks. A clock is… — Alan Wilson Watts Helping people Copy Share Image
“who believe more firmly in the Devil than in God are always afraid that if they let go, the Devil will take… — Alan Wilson Watts 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 Success 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
“it just happens, and all happenings are mutually interdependent in a way that seems unbelievably harmonious.” — Alan Wilson Watts 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 Life Copy Share Image
“He who thinks that God is not comprehended, by him God is comprehended; but he who thinks that God is comprehended knows… — Alan Wilson Watts God Copy Share Image
“Man as an organism is to the world outside like a whirlpool is to a river: man and world are a single… — Alan Wilson Watts Identity Copy Share Image
“All too easily, we confuse the world as we symbolize it with the world as it is. As semanticist Alfred Korzybski used… — Alan Wilson Watts Patriotism Copy Share Image
“There is, then, an analogy–and perhaps more than mere analogy–between central vision and conscious, one-at-a-time thinking, and between peripheral vision and the… — Alan Wilson Watts Dreams Copy Share Image
“The precious … uniqueness which the human individual claims is conferred on him not by possession of an immortal soul but by possession of… — Alan Wilson Watts Biology Copy Share Image
“But when you know for sure that your separate ego is a fiction, you actually feel yourself as the whole process and… — Alan Wilson Watts Life Copy Share Image
“concerns itself with the linguistic, ethical, legal, and ritual conventions which provide the society with its system of communication. Confucianism, in other… — Alan Wilson Watts Communication Copy Share Image
