Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN WATTSTrying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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 WATTSWe do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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 WATTSOur pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
ALAN WATTSWe feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
ALAN WATTSMuddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
ALAN WATTSTechnology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
ALAN WATTSPeople become concerned with being more humble than other people.
ALAN WATTSWords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
ALAN WATTSPlaying a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
ALAN WATTSHuman desire tends to be insatiable.
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 WATTSThe mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
ALAN WATTSTrying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN WATTSThe past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
ALAN WATTS