Alan Watts Quotes

I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions that they exist only in the present which is what there is and all that there is.

Alan Watts

This-the immediate everyday and present experience-is IT the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.

Alan Watts

Faith is above all openness an act of trust in the unknown.

Alan Watts

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

Alan Watts

If we live we live if we die we die if we suffer we suffer if we are terrified we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

Alan Watts

Zen is a way of liberation concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous but what is.

Alan Watts

Zen is a way of liberation concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous but what is.

Alan Watts

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

Alan Watts

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent... this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

Alan Watts

Carried to its final extreme, the logical end of this type of reaction to life is suicide. The hard-bitten kind of person is always, as it were, a partial suicide; some of himself is already dead

Alan Watts