Alan Watts

Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.

Alan Watts

Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one’s own person.

Alan Watts

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Alan Watts

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

Alan Watts

The destination of life is this eternal moment.

Alan Watts

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Alan Watts

The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is simply to release any images and emotions.

Alan Watts

There’s an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees, there are no flowers. They are really one organism. And so in the same way, everything in nature depends on everything else.

Alan Watts

To ‘know’ reality you cannot stand outside it and define it; you must enter into it, be it, and feel it.

Alan Watts

To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.

Alan Watts