Quotes by Inspiring Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way. Alan Watts problem inspiring way But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. Alan Watts faith letting-go inspiring How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. Alan Watts eye faith inspiring But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything. Alan Watts forests inspiring quiet 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 gone forever inspiring What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do. Alan Watts devil inspiring people We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. Alan Watts mental-health pain inspiring There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again. Alan Watts circles inspiring watches Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. Alan Watts freedom inspiring inspirational The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love. Alan Watts killing struggle inspiring The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing. Alan Watts wisdom joy inspiring The menu is not the meal. Alan Watts meals inspiring philosophy What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself. Alan Watts fabric structure inspiring You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. Alan Watts wave ocean inspiring Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything. Alan Watts conventions inspiring You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing. Alan Watts ocean inspiring way Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. Alan Watts unique tree inspiring There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion. Alan Watts eye inspiring lying To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it. Alan Watts conventions deceived inspiring You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are. Alan Watts bangs bigs inspiring «1234567891011»
