Alan Watts Quotes

Only a spiritual being has awareness.

You are the universe, you aren't in the universe.

I think that our personalities and our souls have so much - we're so much more than just blood vessels and bone and muscle.

As you you deeply into your own awareness, and relax the self-contraction, and dissolve into the empty ground of your own primordial experience, the simply feeling of Being-right now, right here-is it not obvious at once?

You are not a human being. You are not your body, you are not your mind, and you are not your soul. These are things that You have. The You that has these things - indeed, that has given your Self these things - is far bigger than any of them, and even all of them put together.

Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being.

◦"At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is

You are before being and not being, awake and dream take place in time. You have no time.

As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this universe.

The consciousness of life is higher than life.

Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.

Life is not somewhere waiting for you, it is happening in you. It is not in the future as a goal to be arrived at, it is herenow, this very moment - in your breathing, circulating in your blood, beating in your heart. Whatsoever you are is your life, and if you start seeking meaning somewhere else, you will miss it. Man has done that for centuries.

Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.

What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being.

Because dogs and cats still live in the original state of connectedness with Being, they can help us regain it. When we do so, however, that original state deepens and turns into awareness.

Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.

We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.

Only in unawareness you are mortal. In awareness you are immortal.

The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself; it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being.

All we are is in the soul.

When I began to read, I began to exist

In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don't know what I am. I don't know if I am or not.

No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.

The "ego" like its correlative "non-ego", is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the real Self is realisation.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.