Quotes By Alan Watts BACK
- Trying to define yourself is
- The difference between a baby
- You can't live at
- A holy person is someone
- Faith is, above all, openness;
- I was talking to a
- The more we try to
- You are an aperture through
- The source of all light
- The role of the Guru
- The real Zen of the
- The problem is to overcome
- So the bodhisattva saves all
- But I'll tell you
- What are plants doing? What
- For when you see that
- The life of Zen begins,
- We identify in our exerience
- The mind's the standard
- What is the next step,
- Like too much alcohol,self
- Our normal sense of the
- Zen is a liberation from
- No worthwhile life can be
- To remain caught up in
- Philosophers, for example, often fail
- The fools standpoint is that
- So then, the relationship of
- Life exists only at this
- The whole point of Zen
- The menu is not the
- You have seen that the
- Imagine a multidimensiona l spider'
- Sexual love is a troubled
- Everything is perpetually becoming new.
- We accepted a definition of
- It is the seeker, who
- A scholar tries to learn
- You must not be afraid
- The biggest ego trip is
- When we attempt to exercise
- Total situations are, therefore, patterns
- Breathing is important in the
- To the philosophers of India,
- I seem to be a
- The Tao belongs neither to
- Many people never grow up.
- If you can't meditate
- Lack of awareness of the
- Everything in the world is
- In a certain sense, Zen
- This is what Zen means
- Do you see yourself as
- The whole universe is through
- If you are ready to
- For every individual is a
- The more we struggle for
- The greater the scientist, the
- It is obvious that the
- For unless one is able
- We are living in a
- Increasingly, the world around us
- The Godhead is never an
- What I am really saying
- The more a thing tends
- We cannot be more sensitive
- What the devil is the
- And people get all fouled
- The Chinese word Li may
- Real travel requires a maximum
- When death comes, it's
- Someone once described Christian Secularism
- I have suggested that behind
- A person who thinks too
- Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably
- If we cling to belief
- If we are not totally
- I am amazed that Congressmen
- As the fish doesn't
- Problems that remain persistently insoluble
- When you really understand that
- Our educational system in its
- Stay in the center, and
- When one speaks of awakening,
- I can only think seriously
- Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow
- Faith...is letting go and
- Western religions are more concerned
- The Highest to which people
- For the price of intelligence
- The animal tends to eat
- To be free from convention
- The psychotherapist ... tries to help
- Society is our extended mind
- There is an ineffable mystery
- There was a young man
- If, then, my awareness of
- The harder we try to
- Basically, there is simply nothing
- You are the universe experiencing
- We are the eyes of
- Everyone is the fabric and
- I want ... to consort with
- What you are basically, deep,
- The world is in an
- When we look for things
- So we down to earth,
- Cows scream louder than carrots.
- If we want justice for
- Faith is a state of
- The wake doesn't drive
- A philosopher is a sort
- The real you is not
- There is nothing at all
- To be alive spiritually man
- How could you say the
- Religion is always falling apart.
- How did you know you'
- Insecurity is the result of
- The meaning of life is
- No amount of anxiety makes
- Here is the vicious circle:
- I find that the sensation
- Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate
- To perceive that form reveals
- The secret of the enjoyment
- Nothing is more creative than
- To know that you are
- I owe my solitude to
- The mundane and the sacred
- If the universe is meaningless,
- The anitya doctrine is, again,
- Ego is a social institution
- More and more we try
- In life as well as
- The idea of the Universe
- You're not something that'
- Enlightenment or awakening is not
- The best way to convince
- We do not "come into"
- The habitual dualists solution to
- But to me nothing the
- The myths underlying our culture
- Paradoxical as it may seem,
- We must be careful that
- You can't figure out
- All I'm saying is
- words can be communicative only
- There was never a time
- Any systems approaching perfect self
- Through our eyes, the universe
- The sound of the rain
- If you belong to an
- What would you like to
- The world is a marvelous
- The materialism of modern civilization
- You don't look out
- There is no way of
- When a man no longer
- Yet again, the more you
- No one imagines that a
- We see what we believe
- We have somehow conned ourselves
- Psychedelic experience is only a
- When you get free from
- The police have enough work
- Many people think that the
- Your world is all these
- Do not let the rapidity
- However much I may be
- We do not "come into"
- If we are unduly absorbed
- To the Taoist mentality, the
- The hostile attitude of conquering
- Don't hurry anything. Don'
- Black implies white self implies
- The myths underlying our culture
- Enlightenment remains unrealized so long
- Chaos is always losing, but
- Stop measuring days by degree
- Think about a piece of
- We are not clear as
- Things are as they are.
- For a decision the freest
- Man suffers only because he
- They are enlightened who join
- I have no other self
- And it came to pass
- If you insist on being
- I have realized that the
- Some believe all that parents,
- Altough we all realize that
- One's life is an
- Where so ever beings exist
- I would suggest that today,
- Technology is destructive only in
- Meditation is the way in
- Take a deep breath and
- The Greek word for sinning
- You and I are all
- Change is an illusion because
- What you do is what
- If a flower had a
- You can't have something
- We are living in a
- Make a spurious division of
- Buddhism has in it no
- The further and further we
- Nirvana is where you are,
- Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen
- But at any rate, the
- Zen... does not confuse spirituality
- Life is not a problem
- And so when the essential
- Our view of reality is
- For the perfect accomplishment of
- Life and love generate effort
- For if you know what
- so, the whole idea, you
- What would you do if
- Jesus Christ knew he was
- To go out of your
- Your soul isn't in
- If we live, we live;
- The art of living... is
- By going out of your
- To play so as to
- Running away from fear is
- That society is strong and
- Life and love generate effort,
- The destination of life is
- There is no coming toward
- We usually don't look.
- The whole process of nature
- There is no formula for
- Religion is not a department
- The hallucination of separateness prevents
- If the earth is man'
- The future is a concept,
- Only words and conventions can
- A paradox is only a
- No one's mouth is
- For me, being literate and
- The sense of wrong is
- Nothing fails like successbecause the
- For thousands of years human
- It's time to question
- The reason we want to
- It is interesting that Hindus,
- How is it possible that
- One is a great deal
- Do you have any control
- When you feel that you
- A chest of gold coins
- The ego is nothing other
- By replacing fear of the
- Zen is really extraordinarily simple
- In Zen, poverty is voluntary,
- Your body does not eliminate
- When you look out of
- But we must not suffer
- It seems to be the
- It is also in despair
- Billions of years ago, you
- The point is seeing that
- For we have never actually
- LSD is simply an exploratory
- The individual may be understood
- The sound of the rain
- Mysticism and empiricism go together
- The most strongly enforced of
- The religious idea of God
- What we need to realize
- As muddy water is best
- To go out of your
- All that you see out
- Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers
- When a man no longer
- The only way to make
- Sex is no longer a
- We have a strange anxiety
- The style of God venerated
- Nothing satisfies an individual incapable
- Preliminary accounting banking and surveying
- We live in a culture
- We thought of life by
- Just as money is not
- For since there is no
- Life and Reality are not
- If you cannot trust yourself,
- It is a special kind
- We must see that consciousness
- The truth is revealed by
- Inability to accept the mystic
- Parts exist only for purposes
- We have allowed brain thinking
- Spiritual awakening is the difficult
- Everybody should do in their
- The past and the future
- These people, as far as
- You, yourself, are the eternal
- The question "What shall we
- In looking out upon the
- You are the big bang,
- Once you've learned to
- Thought is a means of
- Hurrying and delaying are alike
- Just what should a young
- Man is a little germ
- For there is a growing
- The hallucination of being a
- Where do I begin and
- There is nothing wrong with
- In known history, nobody has
- To have faith is to
- But when no risk is
- Naturally, for a person who
- We all need to go
- If to enjoy even an
- Every intelligent individual wants to
- Better to have a short
- The power of memories and
- If the human race develops
- We seldom realize, for example
- You can't make love
- Like love, the light or
- The difficulty for most of
- The meaning and purpose of
- If you love a person,
- We are all as much
- Our pleasures are not material
- To feel that life is
- But we try to pretend,
- The reason we have poverty
- We are at war between
- Truly great companies are built
- At times almost all of
- Without birth and death, and
- There's an interdependence between
- You will never get to
- What we have to discover
- We get such a kick
- Waking up to who you
- Anxiety is the fear that
- A priest once quoted to
- To be silent is not
- Nets grids and other types
- Self knowledge leads to wonder,
- The Art of Being: A
- A less 'brainy culture' would
- Try to imagine what it
- Enjoyment is an art and
- Increasingly, we're developing all
- For the world is an
- Courage is the goal of
- But the attitude of faith
- The self styled practical man
- this present moment never comes
- Just as true humor is
- Zen is a way of
- Time is a social institution
- Of course, you cant force
- We suffer from a hallucination,
- Beyond positive and negative, what
- A person who thinks all
- We think that the world
- There is a peculiar contradiction
- The Universe is the game
- Irrevocable commitment to any religion
- In reality there are no
- Essentially Satori is a sudden
- The agnostic, the skeptic, is
- It takes time for an
- This is the real secret
- Inability to accept the mystic
- If happiness always depends on
- You don't need to
- What keeps us from happiness
- You know that if you
- So what is discord at
- Perhaps there is no other
- Belief, as I use the
- Wars based on principle are
- I knew of a physicist
- Meditation is the discovery that
- If you say that getting
- Jesus was not the man
- The only serious side effect
- The morning glory which blooms
- We know that from time
- No work or love will
- Life is like music for
- Now, you see, if you
- Muddy water is best cleared
- If you are afraid of
- Never pretend to a love
- Wonder, and its expression in
- When we dance, the journey
- For there is never anything
- The soul is something which
- There is always something taboo,
- What we see as death,
- Everyone has love, but it
- There are two specific objections
- A living body is not
- A myth is an image
- To put is still more
- Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery
- Playing a violin is, after
- Hospitals should be arranged in
- Where does my fist go
- We feel that our actions
- You can't get wet
- In Hindu philosophy the whole
- People become concerned with being
- The world is filled with
- I too realize that the
- Lack of love for the
- To understand music, you must
- To define is to limit,
- The clash between science and
- But the transformation of consciousness
- As a human being it
- Duality is always secretly unity.
- There is a deep, peaceful
- The trouble with many religions,
- Conscious attention is a designed
- You are a function of
- Every individual is a unique
- So many people of wealth
- That's a waste of
- The 'you' who you think
- People sometimes fail to live
- What we have forgotten is
- Every explicit duality is an
- You are something that the
- Omnipotence is not knowing how
- And the more you become
- Real religion is the transformation
- Just as the ocean is
- Other people teach us who
- Buddhism ... is not a culture
- But at any rate, the
- In other words, a person
- But the disappearance of the
- We are sick with fascination
- Normally, we do not so
- The greater part of human
- And the attitude of faith
- What are we saying when
- Philosophy is mans expression of
- If you want to stay
- We tend to regard ourselves
- The point, which can hardly
- It is hard indeed to
- To resist change, to try
- You find out that the
- The meaning of life is
- You are that vast thing
- You will begin to realize
- The question is not what
- The moralist is the person
- People often say to me, '
- No one is more dangerously
- This the immediate, everyday, and
- To remain stable is to
- Just as the highest and
- There is only this now.
- It's so important to
- And although our bodies are
- But, as Douglas E Harding
- What was it like to
- But my dear man, reality
- If you study the writings
- When we dance, the journey
- You can make any human