“Life is a series of urgent choices demanding firm commitment to this or to that.” — Alan Wilson Watts Choices Copy Share Image
“Life seems to be a system that eats itself to death, and in which victory equals defeat.” — Alan Wilson Watts Death Copy Share Image
“us. The good of contemplation is contemplation—not some result that it may bring.” — Alan Wilson Watts Contemplation Copy Share Image
“The structure of your organism, of your senses and nerves, endows the world with all its sensible and measurable properties—for rocks cannot… — Alan Wilson Watts Senses Copy Share Image
“The centipede was happy, quite, Until a toad in fun Said, “Pray, which leg goes after which?” This worked his mind to… — Alan Wilson Watts Psychology Copy Share Image
“For Taoism concerns itself with unconventional knowledge, with the understanding of life directly, instead of in the abstract, linear terms of representational… — Alan Wilson Watts Heaven and earth Copy Share Image
“But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies… — Alan Wilson Watts Desire Copy Share Image
“as masters of technical weapons we are fighting the environment as if we still believed ourselves to be strangers on the earth,… — Alan Wilson Watts Environment Copy Share Image
“Indeed, one of the highest pleasures is to be more or less unconscious of one’s own existence, to be absorbed in interesting… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“Man aspires to govern nature, but the more one studies ecology, the more absurd it seems to speak of any one feature… — Alan Wilson Watts Biology Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it easy to see that this line is imaginary, and that it, and the witness behind it, are the same old… — Alan Wilson Watts Children Copy Share Image
“But the Oriental musician has a rough notation which he uses only as a reminder of a melody. He learns music, not… — Alan Wilson Watts Art Copy Share Image
“This is the inevitable disadvantage of studying Asian philosophy by the purely literary methods of Western scholarship, for words can be communicative… — Alan Wilson Watts Philosophy Copy Share Image
“But Jesus had to speak through a public-address system—the only one available—which distorted his words, so that they came forth as the… — Alan Wilson Watts Good news Copy Share Image
“Lao-tzu didn’t actually say very much more about the meaning of Tao. The Way of Nature, the Way of happening self-so, or,… — Alan Wilson Watts Life Copy Share Image
“This state of affairs is known technically as the "double-bind." A person is put in a double-bind by a command or request… — Alan Wilson Watts Life Copy Share Image
“The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized… — Alan Wilson Watts Art Copy Share Image
“The discovery of this reality is hindered rather than helped by belief, whether one believes in God or believes in atheism. We… — Alan Wilson Watts Belief Copy Share Image
“For man seems to be unable to live without myth, without the belief that the routine and drudgery, the pain and fear… — Alan Wilson Watts Faith 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 Analogy Copy Share Image
“Let’s say (since in writing a book one has to say something) that reality or existence is a multidimensional and interwoven system… — Alan Wilson Watts Books Copy Share Image
“As it is, we are merely bolting our lives—gulping down undigested experiences as fast as we can stuff them in—because awareness of… — Alan Wilson Watts Musical instruments Copy Share Image
“It is fundamental to both Taoist and Confucian thought that the natural man is to be trusted, and from their standpoint it… — Alan Wilson Watts Chinese Copy Share Image
“The morality that goes with this understanding is, above all, the frank recognition of your dependence upon enemies, underlings, out-groups, and, indeed,… — Alan Wilson Watts Character Copy Share Image
“Among the educated young there is therefore a startling and unprecedented interest in the transformation of human consciousness. All over the Western… — Alan Wilson Watts Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Ye suffer from yourselves, none else compels, None other holds you that ye live and die And whir upon the wheel, and… — Alan Wilson Watts Live and die Copy Share Image
