Author: Alan Watts

Quotes

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

- Alan Watts

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.

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.

- 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

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

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

- 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

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

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

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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