More - Alan Watts Quotes

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

 English Philosopher People

No work for love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Alan Watts

 Fear

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Alan Watts

 English Philosopher Night

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Alan Watts

 English Philosopher

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Alan Watts

 American Philosopher God

We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Alan Watts

 Buddhism

I owe my solitude to other people.

Alan Watts

 American Philosopher People

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

Alan Watts

 American Philosopher Trying

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

Alan Watts

 Duty English Philosopher

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.

Alan Watts

 American Philosopher Future