Alan Watts's Quotes

Alan Watts's Quotes 23

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that...

Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the...

So then the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that...

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But to me nothing - the negative the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

In known history nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than...

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

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The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great...

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned...

The style of God venerated in the church mosque or synagogue seems...

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

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is...

You don't look out there for God something in the sky you look in you.

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

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions that they exist...

No work or love will flourish out of guilt fear or hollowness of heart...

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

In other words a person who is fanatic in matters of religion and clings to...

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab...

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes such...

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it move with it...

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief of...

But the attitude of faith is to let go and become open to truth whatever it...