Alan Watts

Life requires no future to complete itself nor explanation to justify itself. In this moment it is finished.

Alan Watts

Logic, intelligence, and reason are satisfied, but the heart goes hungry.

Alan Watts

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

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Alan Watts

Most of us believe in order to feel secure, in order to make our individual lives seem valuable and meaningful.

Alan Watts

My conscious mind must have its roots and origins in the most unfathomable depths of being, yet it feels as if it lived all by itself in this tight little skull.

Alan Watts

Nirvana is where you are, provided you don’t object to it.

Alan Watts

Nothing fails like success – because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

Alan Watts

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

Alan Watts

Once the mind has seen through all fear and all hope, it finds peace within itself, in a state of awareness beyond thought.

Alan Watts