Alan Watts Quotes, Mind Quotes, Today Quotes

I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Mind Quotes , Today Quotes

The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the gratification of a self which is no more than an idea, and the morrow which never comes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , Ideas Quotes

The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Gentleman Quotes

A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Gold Quotes , Use Quotes

When your eyes are functioning well you don't see your eyes. If your eyes are imperfect you see spots in front of them. That means there are some lesions in the retina or wherever, and because your eyes aren't working properly, you feel them. In the same way, you don't hear your ears. If you have a ringing in your ears it means there's something wrong with your ears. Therefore, if you do feel yourself, there must be something wrong with you. Whatever you have, the sensation of I is like spots in front of your eyes - it means something's wrong with your functioning.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Mean Quotes , Eye Quotes

The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Mean Quotes , Missing 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

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Differentiation Quotes

For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Giving Up Quotes , Ideas Quotes

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Fun Quotes

Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Long Quotes , Enlightenment Quotes

In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Art Quotes , Energy Quotes

A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Attention Quotes , Paradox Quotes

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Technology Quotes , Hands Quotes

Society is our extended mind and body.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Mind Quotes , Body 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

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Pain Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Mind Quotes , Religion 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Art Quotes , Light Quotes

What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call "here and now," and you are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing... The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around. The real deep-down you is the whole universe.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Real Quotes , Ocean Quotes