Alan Watts Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• The difference between a baby and adult is that a baby believes in everything while the adult doubts everything. Babies also only tell the truth until they learn what a lie is.

  Alan Watts

  Baby, Lying, Believe

• 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 real reason why human life can be so utterly exasperating and frustrating is not because there are facts called death, pain, fear, or hunger. The madness of the thing is that when such facts are present, we circle, buzz, writhe, and whirl, trying to get the I out of the experience...
  Sanity, wholeness and integration lie in the realisation that we are not divided, that man and his present experience are one, and that no separate I or mind can be found .... [Life] is a dance, and when you are dancing, you are not intent on getting somewhere. The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.

  Alan Watts

  Pain, Real, Lying

• Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.

  Alan Watts

  Truth, Lying, Heart

  Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.38, New World Library

• I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.

  Alan Watts

  Lying, Games, Plot

  "The Two Hands of God : The Myths of Polarity" by Alan Watts, (p. 29), 1963.

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