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I am basically an eternal existence
momentarily and perhaps needlessly
terrified by one half of itself.. — Alan W. Watts

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. — Alan Watts

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. — Alan W. Watts

Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything. — Alan W. Watts

Read Theodore Schwenk's marvelous book Sensitive Chaos (London, Rudolph Steiner Press, 1965), — Alan W. Watts

I assume that maybe you are not serious, but sincere. — Alan W. Watts

The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is — Alan Watts

All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head. — Alan Watts

Black implies white self implies other — Alan Watts

What will happen to me when I die is, after all, like asking what happens to my fist when I open my hand — Alan W. Watts

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. — Alan Watts

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. — Alan Watts

To "know" reality you cannot stand outside it and define it; you must enter into it, be it, and feel it. — Alan W. Watts

Actually, the world is not complex. It is the task of trying to figure it out with words or numbers that is complex. — Alan W. Watts

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself. — Alan W. Watts

The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years. — Alan W. Watts

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is. — Alan Watts

How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy? — Alan Watts

How can a republic be the best form of government if the universe, heaven and hell are all a monarchy? — Alan W. Watts

[A] certain amount of "sitting just to sit" might well be the best thing in the world for the jittery minds and agitated bodies [...]. — Alan W. Watts

The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind. — Alan Watts

Truly great companies are built on ideals, not just deals. — Alan Watts

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us. — Alan Watts

People become concerned with being more humble than other people. — Alan W. Watts

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. — Alan W. Watts

Indeed, the power of words has gone to man's head in more than one way. To define has come to mean almost the same thing as to understand. — Alan W. Watts

What do you desire? What makes you itch? What sort of a situation would you like? — Alan W. Watts

We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us. — Alan Watts

Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration. — Alan Watts

The mind's the standard of the man. — Alan Watts

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge
of oneself. — Alan W. Watts

If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now. — Alan Watts

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. — Alan Watts

When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things. — Alan Watts

Salvation and sanity consist in the most radical recognition that we have no way of saving ourselves. This — Alan W. Watts

Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will? — Alan Watts

If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate. — Alan Watts

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it. — Alan Watts

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver. — Alan Watts

LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you. — Alan Watts