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Quotes by Alan Watts - (19 quotes)

Alan Watts - From the Change category:

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

Alan Watts - From the Ego category:

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention. (Alan Watts)

Alan Watts - From the Experience category:

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us. (Alan Watts)

Alan Watts - From the Expression category:

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. (Alan Watts)

Alan Watts - From the Faith category:

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. (Alan Watts)

Alan Watts - From the Harmony category:

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level. (Alan Watts)

Alan Watts - From the Love category:

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. (Alan Watts)

Alan Watts - From the Opposites category:

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. (Alan Watts)

Alan Watts - From the Planning category:

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. (Alan Watts)

Alan Watts - From the Pleasure category:

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. (Alan Watts)

Alan Watts - From the Religion category:

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. (Alan Watts)

Alan Watts - From the Religion category:

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. (Alan Watts)

Alan Watts - From the Senses category:

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? (Alan Watts)

Alan Watts - From the Solitude category:

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything. (Alan Watts)

Alan Watts - From the Standards category:

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. (Alan Watts)

Alan Watts - From the Technology category:

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. (Alan Watts)

Alan Watts - From the Time category:

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. (Alan Watts)

Alan Watts - From the Universe category:

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. (Alan Watts)

Alan Watts - From the Worth category:

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. (Alan Watts)