Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it. —Alan Watts More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Alan Watts Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British and American writer, speaker, and self-styled "philosophical entertainer", known for interpreting and popularising Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience.
More quotations from Alan Watts The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings the past and the future are not as real, but more real than the present. —Alan Watts More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world. —Alan Watts More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. —Alan Watts More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity of the universe, and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do. —Alan Watts More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. —Alan Watts More about this quote Tags: love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings the past and the future are not as real, but more real than the present. —Alan Watts More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world. —Alan Watts More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. —Alan Watts More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity of the universe, and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do. —Alan Watts More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. —Alan Watts More about this quote Tags: love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email