Words are the frames of maya, the meshes of its net, and the experience is of the water which slips through.
Alan Watts
The ego exists in an abstract sense alone, being an abstration from memory, somewhat like the illusionary circle of the fire made by whirling torch.
Alan Watts
I cannot throw a ball so long as I am holding on to it-so as to maintain the perfect control of its movement.
Alan Watts
When Christians go to the church they leave their bodies at the door.
Alan Watts
Awakening is to know what reality is not.
Alan Watts
Serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure.
Alan Watts
The art of living...is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.
Alan Watts
What I am talking about in words and thoughts is the interval between thoughts, just as in music one hears melody not so much from the tones themselves as from their intervals between them.
Alan Watts
We cannot define energy, but we can work with it.
Alan Watts
In trying to figure out the brain, the obstacle is that we have no finer instrument than the brain itself for the purpose.
Alan Watts
Formal games are a way of getting together with other people without ever meeting them.
Alan Watts
To be inevitably compelled by God is to be one with God, and that in this way, determinism becomes freedom.
Alan Watts
Light has no need to shine upon itself.
Alan Watts
There are no shadows in nature: everything is colored, because the whole material world is basically composed of light.
Alan Watts
The dollar is something like an inch (not wealth, but a measure of wealth).
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