Quotes by Alan Watts

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain."

"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."

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

"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."

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

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

"So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself."