Top 48 Quotes by Alan Watts

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

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.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

Saints need sinners.

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.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

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.

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.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.