Human desire tends to be insatiable.
ALAN WATTSI find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
More Alan Watts Quotes
-
-
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
ALAN WATTS -
I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN WATTS -
Only doubtful truths need defense.
ALAN WATTS -
What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
ALAN WATTS -
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
ALAN WATTS -
When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
ALAN WATTS -
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN WATTS -
One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
ALAN WATTS -
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
ALAN WATTS -
The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
ALAN WATTS -
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
ALAN WATTS -
This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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 -
To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
ALAN WATTS -
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
ALAN WATTS







