Quotes from Alan Watts

this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

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

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

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.

We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.

You can't make love without art.

There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.

The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.

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

Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

The difference between a baby and adult is that a baby believes in everything while the adult doubts everything. Babies also only tell the truth until they learn what a lie is.

To feel that life is meaningless unless "I" can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.

The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.