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Exclusive 18 Selected Quotes By - Alan Watts

Exclusive 18 Selected Quotes By - Alan Watts
Exclusive 18 Selected Quotes By - Alan Wattse

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

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

— Alan Watts

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

— Alan Watts

Saints need sinners.

Saints need sinners.

— 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

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

— Alan Watts

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

— Alan Watts

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

— Alan Watts

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.

— Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

— Alan Watts

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

— Alan Watts

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

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

— Alan Watts

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

— Alan Watts

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

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

— Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

— Alan Watts

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

— 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

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

— Alan Watts

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