10 Quotes by Alan Watts

Quotes by Alan Watts

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.