“You think there's a real difference between 'self' and 'other.' But 'self,' what you call yourself, and what you call 'other' are… — Alan Wilson Watts Identity Copy Share Image
“I well remember the first great hemp shop that was opened in San Francisco around 1976. It was essentially a long wooden… — Alan Wilson Watts San francisco Copy Share Image
“tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the… — Alan Wilson Watts 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 Copy Share Image
“Life is a series of urgent choices demanding firm commitment to this or to that.” — Alan Wilson Watts Decision making 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Just as true humour is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.” — Alan Wilson Watts Humor 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
“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
“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 Knowledge 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
“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 Faith 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
“us. The good of contemplation is contemplation—not some result that it may bring.” — Alan Wilson Watts Meditation 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
“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
“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
“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
