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 WATTSHospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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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.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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