• Categories
  • Alan Watts Quotes   1248
  • Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Secret Quotes , Together Quotes
  • To define is to limit, to set boundaries, to compare and to contrast, and for this reason, the universe, the all, seems to defy definition....Just as no one in his senses would look for the morning news in a dictionary, no one should use speaking and thinking to find out what cannot be spoken or thought.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Morning Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known under the name of Taoism, the way of correspondence between man and the tendency or the course of natural world.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Writing Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Time is a social institution and not a physical reality. There is no such thing as time in the natural world - the world of stars and waters, clouds, mountains and living organisms. There is such a thing as rhythm - rhythm of tides, rhythm of biological processes... There is rhythm and there is motion. Time is a way of measuring motion.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Stars Quotes , Reality Quotes
  • We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that "I myself" is a seperate center of feeling and action, living inside and bounded by the physical body-a center which "confronts" an "external" world of people and things, making contact through the senses with a universe both alien and strange.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , People Quotes , Feelings Quotes
  • There are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs.First,use of these drugs may be dangerous.Howev er,every worth-while exploration is dangerous-climb ing mountains,testi ng aircraft,rocket ing into outer space,or collecting botanical specimens in jungles.But if you value knowledge & the actual delight of exploration more than mere duration of uneventful life,you are willing to take the risks.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Two Quotes , Space Quotes
  • Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Eye Quotes , Past Quotes