Alan Watts Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Alan Watts
Alan Watts Famous Quotes & Sayings
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To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.
For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.
The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.
When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.
We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.
There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.
To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.
For since there is no real 'way' to sartori, the way you are following makes very little difference.
This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.
If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind.
We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.
Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.
Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.
Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.
In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.
You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.
You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this Universe. You didn't come into this world; you came out of it. Like a wave from the ocean.
Philosophy is man's expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.
Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol ...
Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.
For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.
Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.
How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?
We all need to go out of our minds at least once a day.
When we go out of our minds we quickly come to our senses.
When we go out of our minds we quickly come to our senses.
The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is
Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.
Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart.
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.
We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.
You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.
You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.
And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords
To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.
Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.
The habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.
They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.