black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.

Alan Watts

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
ALAN WATTS

Faith Float Freedom Grab Relaxation Swim Trust Water Yourself
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN WATTS

Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
ALAN WATTS

Actual Aware Awareness Beginning Future Live Past Present Real World
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
ALAN WATTS

Adequate Poetry Talk Words
Try 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 WATTS

Gone Imagination Night Sleep Wake Up
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
ALAN WATTS

Abstraction Future Past Reality
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
ALAN WATTS

Duty God Infinite Religious
It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
ALAN WATTS

Life Misery Spend
People can’t be talked out of illusions.
ALAN WATTS

Illusion Judgment One Liner People Talk
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
ALAN WATTS

Change Dance Inspirational Join Move Reality Sense
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
ALAN WATTS

Animal Compassion Love Play World
The menu is not the meal.
ALAN WATTS

Food Meal Menu One Liner Philosophy
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
ALAN WATTS

Far Telescope Vast
I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
ALAN WATTS

Aware
Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
ALAN WATTS

God Man Personal Religion Result Savior
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN WATTS

Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself

Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Alan Watts Quotes