Inner Wisdom Quotes

Quotes by Alan Watts

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
- Alan Watts
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 Watts
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
- Alan Watts
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
- Alan Watts
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
- Alan Watts
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
- Alan Watts
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
- Alan Watts
I owe my solitude to other people.
- Alan Watts
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
- Alan Watts
Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.
- Alan Watts