Alan Watts Quotes

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

The future is a concept, it doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That’s one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.

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

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

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

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

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.

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

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

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.

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

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

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

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.

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.