Alan Watts

12 quotes

"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."

Alan Watts

"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."

Alan Watts

"We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible."

Alan Watts

"A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft."

Alan Watts

"But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know."

Alan Watts

"They say in India that a man who is liberated in this world has to cultivate a few mild bad habits in order to stay in the body, because if he were absolutely perfect he would disappear from manifestation. So the yogi, the great yogi, occasionally smokes a cigarette or has a bad temper occasionally, something that keeps him human, and that little thing is very important."

Alan Watts

"A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft."

Alan Watts

"We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible."

Alan Watts

"But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know."

Alan Watts

"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."

Alan Watts

"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."

Alan Watts

"They say in India that a man who is liberated in this world has to cultivate a few mild bad habits in order to stay in the body, because if he were absolutely perfect he would disappear from manifestation. So the yogi, the great yogi, occasionally smokes a cigarette or has a bad temper occasionally, something that keeps him human, and that little thing is very important."

Alan Watts