One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
ALAN WATTSOne is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
ALAN WATTSHurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
ALAN WATTSThrough our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
ALAN WATTSYou are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
ALAN WATTSMan suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
ALAN WATTSProblems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
ALAN WATTSThe religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
ALAN WATTSLike too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
ALAN WATTSWe feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
ALAN WATTSThe present is always changing the past.
ALAN WATTSThe world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
ALAN WATTSJust as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
ALAN WATTSYou will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
ALAN WATTSTry to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
ALAN WATTSThe menu is not the meal.
ALAN WATTSWhen you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
ALAN WATTS