Alan Watts

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

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

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

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.

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

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.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

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

A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.

Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific _x000D_ state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.

Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality.

The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."

Do you see yourself as a victim of the world, or do you see yourself as the world?

There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day.

Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence.

Thought is a means of concealing Truth.

You can't make love without art.

Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.