Alan Watts Quotes
"Peace can be made only by those who are peaceful, and love can be shown only by those who love.""The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.""What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean.""All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.""The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.""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.""Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.""You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are""Faith is a state of openness or trust""To remain stable is to exist on the brink of collapse""To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet""You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here""To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead, you relax and float""No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now""Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence""The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is""The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.""We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.""You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.""Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality. Not God in a politically kingly sense, but God in the sense of being the self, the deep down basic whatever there is. And you're all that... only you're pretending you're not."
