Alan Watts Quotes

All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

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

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.

The sound of the rain needs no translation.

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.

But to me nothing – the negative, the empty – is exceedingly powerful.

This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.