The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe. Alan Watts More Quotes by Alan Watts More Quotes From Alan Watts So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself. Alan Watts loving-yourself self-love realization 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 consciousness stars soul I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination. Alan Watts bags ego skins And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. Alan Watts belief opposites attitude Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. Alan Watts department whole religion The menu is not the meal. Alan Watts meals inspiring philosophy In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself. Alan Watts forget world The wake doesn't drive the ship Alan Watts ships The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from a giant pine that lives for a thousand years. Alan Watts heart morning years What would you do if money was no object? Alan Watts objects ifs But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. Alan Watts trying world But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. Alan Watts powerful power negative If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or non-human, we must first come to terms with the minority and the enemy in ourselves and in our own hearts, for the rascal is there as much as anywhere in the "external" world - -especially when you realize that the world outside your skin is as much yourself as the world inside. Alan Watts heart motivational war Duality is always secretly unity. Alan Watts duality unity truth The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention. Alan Watts ego focus attention so, the whole idea, you see, is that everything's falling apart, so don't try and stop it. when you're falling off a precipice, it doesn't do you any good to hang onto a rock that's falling with you. see? but everything is doing that. and so, again, this is another case of our completely wasting our energy in trying to prevent the world from falling apart. don't do it. and then you'll be able to do something interesting with the free energy. Alan Watts rocks ideas fall You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up. Alan Watts definitions able want Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific Alan Watts enlightenment states long To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself. Alan Watts change trying life If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up. Alan Watts illusion wake-up want
