Alan Watts Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.

I owe my solitude to other people.

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.