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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go. ― Alan Wilson Watts
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago. ― Alan Watts
If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world. ― Alan Wilson Watts
To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet. ― Alan Wilson Watts
And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning. ― Alan Wilson Watts
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. ― Alan Watts
To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is no escape. ― Alan Wilson Watts
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. ― Alan Wilson Watts
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter. ― Alan Wilson Watts
