Alan Watts Quotes

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be. - Alan Watts

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

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine. - Alan Watts

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. - Alan Watts

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. - Alan Watts

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

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present. - Alan Watts

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