Alan Watts Quotes

Nothing fails like success.
- Alan Watts

A certain amount of doing nothing, and stopping rushing around, would cool everything.
- Alan Watts

Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
- Alan Watts

The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?
- Alan Watts

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
- Alan Watts

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts

Who believe more firmly in the Devil than in God are always afraid that if they let go, the Devil will take over first, unaware that not having let go is the Devil already in full control.
- Alan Watts

The common error of ordinary religious practice is to mistake the symbol for the reality, to look at the finger pointing the way and then to suck it for comfort rather than follow it.
- Alan Watts

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
- Alan Watts

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
- Alan Watts

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
- Alan Watts

If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you’ll spend your life completely wasting your time. You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing things you don’t like doing, which is stupid.
- Alan Watts

He who thinks that God is not comprehended, by him God is comprehended; but he who thinks that God is comprehended knows him not. God is unknown to those who know him, and is known to those who do not know him at all.
- Alan Watts

Love is not something that is a sort of rare commodity, everybody has it.
- Alan Watts

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
- Alan Watts

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
- Alan Watts

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be.
- Alan Watts