Alan Watts Quotes

Each element of the cosmos is positively woven from all the others...The universe holds together, and only one way of considering it is really possible, that is, to take it as a whole, in one piece.

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

Seeing everything means recognizing the ultimate fact that all things that exist are mutually connected into a single whole, even if the connections between them are not yet known to us.

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

You must stop seeing God as separate from you, and you as separate from each other. [...] Nothing exists in the universe that is separate from anything else. Everything is intrinsically connected, irrevocably interdependent, interactive, interwoven into the fabric of all of life.

The Now is as it is because it cannot be otherwise. What Buddhists have always known, physicists now confirm: there are no isolated things or events. Underneath the surface appearance, all things are interconnected, are part of the totality of the cosmos that has brought about the form that this moment takes.

I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail.

Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence.

One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.

One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole - there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole...But nothing exists apart from the whole!

This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.

The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.

Simply see that you are at the center of the universe, and accept all things and beings as parts of your infinite body. When you perceive that an act done to another is done to yourself, you have understood the great truth.

We - each of us - are intricately, irremovably connected to the larger universe.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our own must be beating in every crystal and cell, and we feel like stopping to speak to the plants and animals as friendly fellow-mountaineers. Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go.

We are in the universe and the universe is in us.

Ultimately, the entire universe...has to be understood as a single undivided whole.

There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousness.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.

We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us.

But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.