Alan Watts Quotes

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

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

To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.

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

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.

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

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

Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.

People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

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

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

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

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.

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