Author: 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.

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

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

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

- 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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