Alan Watts

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word water is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.

Alan Watts

Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.

Alan Watts

Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

Alan Watts

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

Alan Watts

Every one of us is an aperture through which the whole cosmos looks out.

Alan Watts

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

Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

Alan Watts

Everything is perpetually becoming new.

Alan Watts

For the trouble with our rich and powerful people is not so much that they are wicked, but that they do not enjoy themselves.

Alan Watts

For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.

Alan Watts