Alan Watts Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”

“You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.”

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

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