And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares… — 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
When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol... — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity. — 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
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“The common error of ordinary religious practice is to mistake the symbol for the reality, to look at the finger pointing the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of… — 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
Spiritual awakening is the difficult process whereby the increasing realisation that everything is as wrong as it can be flips suddenly into… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. — 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
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
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
Now, you see, if you understand what I'm saying, with your intelligence, and then take the next step and say "But I… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role 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
