Alan Watts
Alan Wilson Watts was an English philosopher, writer, speaker, and expert in comparative religion.
Found 12 thoughts of Alan Watts
But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
Alan Watts
We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
Alan Watts
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.
Alan Watts
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
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.
Alan Watts
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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.
Alan Watts
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
Alan Watts
But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
Alan Watts
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
Alan Watts
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
Alan Watts
And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.
Alan Watts
