Alan Watts Quotes, Art Quotes, Light Quotes

The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Art Quotes , Light Quotes

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Skins Quotes , Body Quotes

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Language Quotes , Description Quotes

Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Acceptance Quotes

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Short Life Quotes , Long Quotes

Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Frustration Quotes , Self Quotes

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Culture Quotes , Illusion Quotes

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Human Nature Quotes , Lifeless Quotes

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Banking Quotes , Mathematics Quotes

Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves and our world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Our World Quotes , Doctrine Quotes

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Unique Quotes , Men Quotes

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Trying Quotes

The difference between a baby and adult is that a baby believes in everything while the adult doubts everything. Babies also only tell the truth until they learn what a lie is.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Baby Quotes , Lying Quotes

That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes

You have seen that the universe is at root a magical illusion and a fabulous game, and that there is no separate "you" to get something out of it, as if life were a bank to be robbed. The only real "you" is the one that comes and goes, manifests and withdraws itself eternally in and as every conscious being. For "you" is the universe looking at itself from billions of points of view, points that come and go so that the vision is forever new.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Wisdom Quotes

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Guilt Quotes , Mindfulness Quotes

Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Worry Quotes , Energy Quotes

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens... within I don't know how many years, but in not too long a time, it's going to become basic common sense that you are not some alien being who confronts an external world that is not you, but that almost every intelligent person will have the feeling of being an activity of the entire universe.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Years Quotes

If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , May Quotes , Forget Quotes

No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Life Quotes , Music Quotes