Alan Watts Quotes

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the Unit...

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die but do not seem to make a "problem"...

This-the immediate everyday and present experience-is IT the entire and ultimate point for the ex...

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel for love is not ours to command.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about th...

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instr...

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Faith is above all openness an act of trust in the unknown.

Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Carried to its final extreme, the logical end of this type of reaction to life is suicide. The hard-...

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are e...

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulatin...

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the s...

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spiritu...

Zen is a way of liberation concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous but ...

I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions that they exist only in the present...

If we live we live if we die we die if we suffer we suffer if we are terrified we are terrifi...

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the s...