Alan Watts Quotes

Alan Watts

English Philosopher

Born: Jan 6, 1915

Died: Nov 16, 1973

Being Faith God People Universe You

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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. Alan Watts

Work Love Future Heart Fear Will Guilt Made Living Valid Those Out No Work Just Capacity Plans Who Now Flourish

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

Yourself Own Teeth Define Bite Like Trying Your

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. Alan Watts

Looking Stars Universe Out Constellations Badly Wrong Between Well Make Arranged Nor Comparisons Right Right And Wrong Things Night

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. Alan Watts

Future Past Real Exist Past And Future Which Realized Illusions Present

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

Ego Focus Nothing Other Attention Than Conscious

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

Love You Love Is Ours Pretend Never Feel Command Which Actually

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

You Ocean Universe Wave Physical Continuous Much

I owe my solitude to other people. Alan Watts

Solitude People Other Owe

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

God Eyes Experience Ears Musical Possible Fabulous Nerves Instruments How Enchanted Brain Itself Than Being Anything Sensitive Less Jewels

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

God Faith Nature Religion Words Matters Universe Other About Ideas Becomes Person In Other Words Fanatic Certain Who

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

Great People Money Wealth Poverty Enjoy Think Imagination Only Vast Know Because How Accumulate Reason Many

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

Great You See Vast Off Far Thing

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

God Natural Church Style Universe Synagogue Seems Mosque Different

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

Future Made Living Valid Those Capacity Plans Who Now

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

Attitude Faith Holding Opposite Clinging Very Holding On Belief

Faith is a state of openness or trust. Alan Watts

Faith Trust State Openness

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. Alan Watts

History People Gone Aggressive Universe Way States About Had Nobody Altering Known Than America Capacity United United States United States Of America

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

God Everybody Admit Rate Point Nobody Any Being Really

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

Technology People Universe Destructive Only Hands Same Process Realize Who

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

Natural Skin Our Kind Inside Except Outside Environment Between Bounded Although Exist Cannot Natural Environment Bodies Certain Differentiate

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