“In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.”
Alan Watts“In a relativistic universe you don't cling to anything, you learn to swim. And you know what swimming is - it's kind of a relaxed attitude with the water. In which you don't keep yourself afloat by holding the water, but by a certain giving to it.”
Alan W. Watts, The Essential Alan Watts“Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick. ”
Alan W. Watts, The Essential Alan Watts“You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.”
Alan W. Watts, The Essential Alan Watts“I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of "goo.”
Alan W. Watts, The Essential Alan Watts“In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.”
Alan W. Watts, The Essential Alan Watts“No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”
Alan Watts“Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.”
Alan Watts“Faith is a state of openness or trust.”
Alan Watts“You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.”
Alan Watts“The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.”
Alan Watts