Top 48 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

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

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.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

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

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