Author: Alan Watts

Quotes

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.

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

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

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

- 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.

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

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.

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.

- Alan Watts

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

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

- Alan Watts

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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

- Alan Watts

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

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

- Alan Watts

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