Quotes

“In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.” Alan Watts

“The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.” Alan Watts

“We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.” Alan Watts

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

“Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.” Alan Watts

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

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.” Alan Watts

“But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.” Alan Watts

“And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.” Alan Watts

“You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.” Alan Watts

“A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.” Alan Watts

“Faith is a state of openness or trust.” Alan Watts

“Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.” Alan Watts

“Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.” Alan Watts

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

“Saints need sinners.” Alan Watts

“The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.” Alan Watts

“But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.” Alan Watts

“So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.” Alan Watts

“The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.” Alan Watts

“I owe my solitude to other people.” Alan Watts

“Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.” Alan Watts

“The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.” Alan Watts

“So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.” Alan Watts

“You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.” Alan Watts

“And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.” Alan Watts

“Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.” Alan Watts

“Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.” Alan Watts

“Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.” Alan Watts

“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