Alan Watts Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Alan Watts quotes, Alan Watts sayings, and Alan Watts proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Duality is always secretly unity. Alan Watts
Every explicit duality is an implicit unity. Alan Watts
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. Alan Watts
Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is. Alan Watts
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. Alan Watts
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. Alan Watts
But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything. Alan Watts
The mundane and the sacred are one and the same. Alan Watts
Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most people are paid for simply putting up with monotony Alan Watts
There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees, there are no flowers. They are really one organism. And so in the same way, everything in nature depends on everything else. Alan Watts
Cows scream louder than carrots. Alan Watts
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. Alan Watts
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves. Alan Watts
Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible. Alan Watts
Truly great companies are built on ideals, not just deals. Alan Watts
So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself. Alan Watts
Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it. Alan Watts
One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt. Alan Watts
Nothing fails like success. Alan Watts
If you insist on being determined by the past, that’s your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now. Alan Watts
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present. Alan Watts
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. Alan Watts
Faith is a state of openness or trust. Alan Watts
The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego. Alan Watts
The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests. Alan Watts
Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. Alan Watts
The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests. Alan Watts
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. Alan Watts
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. Alan Watts
Spiritual awakening is the difficult process whereby the increasing realisation that everything is as wrong as it can be flips suddenly into the realisation that everything is as right is it can be. Or better, everything is as It as it can be. Alan Watts