It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are. Alan Watts More Quotes by Alan Watts More Quotes From Alan Watts Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life. Alan Watts clothes educational giving There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to "get culture" or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost. Alan Watts mind culture way There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. Alan Watts formulas inspiring life Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering. Alan Watts alcohol self two Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults. Alan Watts teenager adults sex The police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children and little old ladies find their way home. As long as the police confine themselves to such activities they are respected friends of the public. But as soon as they begin inquiring into people's private morals, they become nothing more than armed clergymen. Alan Watts home long children No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing. Alan Watts bigs enough mouths Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent. Alan Watts truth heart lying Where-so-ever beings exist throughout all galaxies, it doesn't make any difference - you are all of them....and when they come into being, that's you coming into being. Alan Watts galaxy differences We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us. Alan Watts driven puppets past The problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space quite another, or just nothing whatever. Then it appeared that space was no mere nothing, because solids couldn't do without it. But the mistake in the beginning was to think of solids and space as two different things, instead of as two aspects of the same thing. The point is that they are different but inseparable, like the front end and the rear end of a cat. Cut them apart, and the cat dies. Alan Watts cat mistake inspiring A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use Alan Watts coins gold use I have no other self than the totality of the things of which I am aware. Alan Watts totality self Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known under the name of Taoism, the way of correspondence between man and the tendency or the course of natural world. Alan Watts names writing men Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself. Alan Watts frustration inspiring trying The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for. Alan Watts roles guru shows Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible. Alan Watts nonsense buddhist notes These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco or Greenwich Village, or Venice, California. Alan Watts san-francisco california beach I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek. Alan Watts plot games lying We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of the physician. You know, of course, that in ancient times there was no clear distinction between priest and physician. Alan Watts tolerance science religion
