Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
ALAN WATTSTomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
More Alan Watts Quotes
-
-
Only doubtful truths need defense.
ALAN WATTS -
The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
ALAN WATTS -
When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
ALAN WATTS -
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
ALAN WATTS -
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
ALAN WATTS -
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
ALAN WATTS -
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
ALAN WATTS -
To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
ALAN WATTS -
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
ALAN WATTS -
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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 -
I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
ALAN WATTS -
The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
ALAN WATTS -
I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN WATTS -
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
ALAN WATTS