Alan Watts Quotes

You look in the mirror, but you don't see what you actually look like.

I think it is easier to hear my voice than see myself onscreen, particularly as the years progress. Watching myself onscreen becomes less and less enthralling.

When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.

Giving yourself threads doesn't mean you don't believe in yourself in my opinion.

When we use memories, we are creators. But when our memories use us, we become victims.

Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality

I don't feel that I'm a role model. I'm just me. If people want to look up to me then that's their business. I'm not perfect and I don't consider myself to be a role model. But to be honest, I'd much rather my kids look up to me than look up to some rock star who gets off jail more times than is even funny.

For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.

Just because you're perfectionist doesn't mean you're perfect.

Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not the villains of our own stories. In fact, it is quite the contrary: we play, and only play, the hero, and in the swirl of other people's stories, insofar as these stories concern us at all, we are never less than heroic.

If you think that I'm nuts, you may be right. But I'm a nut with a positive attitude, baby!

All that matters is how you see yourself.

I don't think I'm extremely intelligent by any means.

By no means do I consider myself this great sparkling personality.

Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar.

It is a fact that you project what you are.

The thing I call ‘my mind’ seems to be kind of like a landlord that doesn’t really know its tenants.

I am what I feel and think and do.

There's still always the possibility that I've gone totally, clinically cuckoo. But somehow I don't think so anymore. An article I once read said that crazy people don't worry about being crazy - that's the whole problem.

I've never presented myself as anything less than a flawed person.

I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much.

Every cell in your body is totally aware of how you think and feel about yourself.

Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.

Meditation is the key to open the door, the door of absolute contentment. Mind is always discontented., hence meditation means creating a state of no-mind. That space is always contented.