552 Quotes by Alan Watts

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely one with this universe.

The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies.

To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.

Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.