The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
ALAN WATTSThe more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
ALAN WATTSHurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
ALAN WATTSWe feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
ALAN WATTSMan suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
ALAN WATTSStay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
ALAN WATTSOther people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
ALAN WATTSWe must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
ALAN WATTSNothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
ALAN WATTSFaith is an act of trust in the unknown.
ALAN WATTSThe religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
ALAN WATTSHuman desire tends to be insatiable.
ALAN WATTSNever pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
ALAN WATTSOnly doubtful truths need defense.
ALAN WATTSYou didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
ALAN WATTSThere 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 WATTSThe clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
ALAN WATTS