Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
ALAN WATTSPlaying a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
ALAN WATTSSociety is our extended mind and body.
ALAN WATTSIf the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
ALAN WATTSMuddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
ALAN WATTSBelief clings, but faith lets go.
ALAN WATTSLike too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
ALAN WATTSDo not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
ALAN WATTSWords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
ALAN WATTSPeople can’t be talked out of illusions.
ALAN WATTSGenuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
ALAN WATTSYou didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
ALAN WATTSThe ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
ALAN WATTSThe menu is not the meal.
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 WATTSWe know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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 WATTS