Alan Watts

Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.

Alan Watts

Human beings are overshadowed by anxiety because of our divided selves.

Alan Watts

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

Alan Watts

I have no other self than the totality of the things of which I am aware.

Alan Watts

If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

Alan Watts

If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you’re not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me.

Alan Watts

Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.

Alan Watts

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

Alan Watts

Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal. For the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it persists for ever.

Alan Watts

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