Poetry Quote by Alan Wilson Watts — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.”

“Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.”

“In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.”

“I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of "goo.”

“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”

“But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives of conventional language has no way of conceiving an intelligence which does not work according to plan, according to a one-at-a-time order of thought. Yet the concrete evidence of such an intelligence is right to hand in our own thoughtlessly ordered bodies. For the Tao does not 'know' how it produces the universe just as we do not 'know' how we construct our brains.”

“Don't we touch each other just to prove we're still here?”

“one day, when tenderness has become the single rule of the morning,/ I will wake in your arms. perhaps your skin will be overly gorgeous./ and the light will include the impossible understanding of love.”

“To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.”

“Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.”

“In this universe there are no time machines or keys that can turn hearts back around.”

“Hanged”