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

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
Alan Watts

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

Saints need sinners.
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

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
Alan Watts

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

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

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
Alan Watts

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

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.
Alan Watts

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.
Alan Watts

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

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
Alan Watts

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

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

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

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