Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Alan Watts

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

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Alan Watts

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
Alan Watts

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.
Alan Watts

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

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

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

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
Alan Watts