Quote

LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.

Alan Watts

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alan Watts
Age: 58 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 6
Died: 1973
Died: November 16
Anglican Priest
Author
Dramaturge
Musician
Philosopher
Theologian
Videographer
Writer
Kent
England
Inside
Microscope
Simply
Microscopes
Like
Telescopes
Instrument
Instruments
Except
Outside
Exploratory
Instead
Telescope

More quotes by Alan Watts

Image
When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.
Alan Watts
Image
Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.
Alan Watts
Image
We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy.
Alan Watts
Image
Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.
Alan Watts
Image
There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it.
Alan Watts
Image
I too realize that the less I preach the more likely I am to be heard.
Alan Watts
Image
The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or no fuss.
Alan Watts
Image
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
Alan Watts
Image
Duality is always secretly unity.
Alan Watts
Image
The anitya doctrine is, again, not quite the simple assertion that the world is impermanent, but rather that the more one grasps at the world, the more it changes.
Alan Watts
Image
If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
Alan Watts
Image
The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.
Alan Watts
Image
You can't live at all unless you can live fully now.
Alan Watts
Image
Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
Alan Watts
Image
You are the universe experiencing itself.
Alan Watts
Image
The menu is not the meal.
Alan Watts
Image
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
Image
By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.
Alan Watts
Image
Sexual love is a troubled and problematic relationship in cultures where there is a strong sense of man's separation from nature, especially when the realm of nature is felt to be inferior or contaminated with evil.
Alan Watts
Image
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
Alan Watts