Exclusive 18 Selected Quotes By - Alan Watts

Exclusive 18 Selected Quotes By - Alan Wattse

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

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

— Alan Watts

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

— Alan Watts

Saints need sinners.

— 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

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

— Alan Watts

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

— Alan Watts

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

— Alan Watts

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.

— Alan Watts

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

— Alan Watts

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

— Alan Watts

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

— Alan Watts

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

— Alan Watts

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

— Alan Watts

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

— Alan Watts

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

— Alan Watts

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

— 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

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