Quotes by Alan Watts

“This-the immediate everyday and present experience-is IT the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.”

“I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions that they exist only in the present which is what there is and all that there is.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“If we live we live if we die we die if we suffer we suffer if we are terrified we are terrified. There is no problem about it.”

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

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

“This-the immediate everyday and present experience-is IT the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.”

“I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions that they exist only in the present which is what there is and all that there is.”

“Underneath the superficial self, which pays attention to this and that, there is another self, more really us than I. And if you become aware of that unknown self, the more you become aware of it, ...”

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

“I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.”

“For several years I have referred to this, hitherto, rare and inaccessible work as the I-told-you-so-book, because it has often been implied that I have invented my explanations of Buddhism out of ...”

“It is especially important for Westerners to understand that high lamas, Zen masters, and Hindu gurus in the discipline of yoga are human beings, not supermen. We must not put them, as we have put ...”

“But what we've got going wrong is we've got a kind of bifurcation [in cultural development]:You take your classified telephone directory, and open up Churches, and have a ruler in your hand. And yo...”

“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”