Alan Watts Realizing Quotations

The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?

I too realize that the less I preach the more likely I am to be heard.

People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'

You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.

Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most people are paid for simply putting up with monotony

And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is.