Quotes by : Alan W. Watts

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.....

The difference between having a job and having a vocation is that a job is some unpleasant work you do....

Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image....

The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.

To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead.

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its....

Suppressing the fear of death makes it all the stronger. The point is only to know, beyond any shadow....

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because....

The common mistake of the religious celibate has been to suppose that the highest spiritual life absolutely....