A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
Alan Watts

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 natural environment.
Alan Watts

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

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

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

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

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

Faith is a state of openness or trust.
Alan Watts


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

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

I owe my solitude to other people.
Alan Watts

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
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

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
Alan Watts

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

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

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

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.
Alan Watts