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.
– Alan W. Watts
I owe my solitude to other people.
– Alan W. Watts
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
– Alan W. Watts
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
– Alan W. Watts
Saints need sinners.
– Alan W. Watts
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.
– Alan W. Watts
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
– Alan W. Watts
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
– Alan W. Watts
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
– Alan W. Watts
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.