Alan W. Watts

Quotes

• “A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the alta...”
• “The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It cons...”
• “We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in ter...”
• “Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and th...”
• “Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact...”
• “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 w...”
• “Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or e...”
• “This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of ...”
• “There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.”
• “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
• “You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”
• “Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
• “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
• “The menu is not the meal.”