You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
ALAN WATTSYou and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
ALAN WATTSHuman desire tends to be insatiable.
ALAN WATTSThe frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
ALAN WATTSLike love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
ALAN WATTSWe confuse money with actual wealth.
ALAN WATTSThings are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
ALAN WATTSPeople become concerned with being more humble than other people.
ALAN WATTSHospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
ALAN WATTSIn looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
ALAN WATTSThe art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
ALAN WATTSTomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
ALAN WATTSSociety is our extended mind and body.
ALAN WATTSFor there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
ALAN WATTSWhat we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
ALAN WATTSJust as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
ALAN WATTSEvery intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
ALAN WATTS