– Alan Watts 16. “The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs.” – Alan Watts “The only Zen you’ll find on mountain tops is the Zen you bring up there with you.” – Alan Watts 18. “You didn’t come into this world.
– Alan Watts 24. “Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.” – Alan Watts 25. “What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.” – Alan Watts 26. “Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names.
– Alan Watts “Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts
– Alan Watts “The only Zen you’ll find on mountain tops is the Zen you bring up there with you.” – Alan Watts 18. “You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.”
Watts passed away in 1973, but his legacy lives on through his many inspirational speeches, some of which have millions of views on YouTube. Here are 50 of the best Alan Watts quotes that’ll blow your mind:
Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts
1. “We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.”. – Alan Watts. 2. “Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever….”. – Alan Watts.
A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.”. – Alan Watts. 43. “The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.”.