Alan Watts Quotes

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

Alan Watts

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level

Alan Watts

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention

Alan Watts

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver

Alan Watts

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be

Alan Watts

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on

Alan Watts

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after

Alan Watts

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

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us

Alan Watts

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe

Alan Watts

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax

Alan Watts

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 are born heirs to them

Alan Watts

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

Alan Watts

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way

Alan Watts

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 act of not being able to stop changing

Alan Watts

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

Alan Watts