All Alan Watts Quotes
- You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. All
- But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. Admit
- Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it. Knowing
- Faith is a state of openness or trust. Faith
- A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. Image
- But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. Empty
- And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. Attitude
- You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. Far
- I owe my solitude to other people. Inspirational
- The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. Church
- Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after. Anti War
- But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. Altogether
- So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level. Another Level
- Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. Destructive
- The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. Become Incredible
- The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity. Duty
- Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they… All
- What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do. Devil
- Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver. Buddhism
- Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. Department
- If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly. Always Find
- We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us. Differentiation
- So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the… Able
- 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… Bodies
- The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it,… Alien