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Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.

Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.

Alan Watts

Inspiring, Conventions

Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Alan Watts

Inspiring, Faith, Eye

"The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are". Book by Alan Watts, 1966.

Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.

Alan Watts

Inspiring, Confused, Purpose

Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.69, Souvenir Press

The problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space quite another, or just nothing whatever. Then it appeared that space was no mere nothing, because solids couldn't do without it. But the mistake in the beginning was to think of solids and space as two different things, instead of as two aspects of the same thing. The point is that they are different but inseparable, like the front end and the rear end of a cat. Cut them apart, and the cat dies.

Alan Watts

Inspiring, Mistake, Cat

"The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are". Book by Alan Watts, 1966.

You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.

Alan Watts

Inspiring, Bangs, Bigs

"What Is Reality?". Book by Alan Watts, 1973.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

Alan Watts

Inspiring, People, Devil

There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

Alan Watts

Inspiring, Lying, Eye

Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.5, Souvenir Press

The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs.

Alan Watts

Inspiring, Confused, Events

Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.58, New World Library