Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would "lief" or wish it to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Belief…is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or (will or) wish to be…Faith is an unreserved opening of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“The self-conscious feedback mechanism of the cortex allows us the hallucination that we are two souls in one body -a rational soul and an… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clutch water in… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“As you make more and more powerful microscopic instruments, the universe has to get smaller and smaller in order to escape the investigation. Just… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
