Alan Watts Quotes

I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

I can't be separated from nature. I am one of her faces.

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

Unity in variety is the plan of the universe.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

Please remember we all come from the same one and we will all return to that one, so there is no reason for fighting.

We are all part of the same energy that envelops.

It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.

The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

I am two with nature.

I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anything in this universe.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

'Which is stronger, politics or love?' is like asking, 'Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling?' They are two sides of the same thing.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.