Alan Watts Quotes

"You are something the whole universe is doing, in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing."

Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

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.

There was a young man who said "Though
I'm aware that I know that I know,
what I'd like to see
is the eye that sees me
when I know that I know that I know."

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.

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

You're actually not a very nice person, are you? You appear to be prepared to do anything to further your career. You don't seem to have any ethics.