Inner Wisdom Quotes

Quotes by Alan Watts

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
- Alan Watts
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
- Alan Watts
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
- 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
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
- 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
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
- Alan Watts
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
- Alan Watts
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.
- Alan Watts
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
- Alan Watts