Alan Watts
Quotations
All Listed Quotations by Alan Watts:
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“No work or 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
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“But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.” -Alan Watts
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“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
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“Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.” -Alan Watts
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“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
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“But to me nothing – the negative, the empty – is exceedingly powerful.” -Alan Watts
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“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
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“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
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“No work or 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
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“You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.” -Alan Watts
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“In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.” -Alan Watts
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“You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.” -Alan Watts
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“The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.” -Alan Watts
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“No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.” -Alan Watts
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“No work or 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
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“Faith is a state of openness or trust.” -Alan Watts
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“How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.” -Alan Watts
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“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” -Alan Watts
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“And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.” -Alan Watts
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