Quotes by Alan Watts

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

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.

Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

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.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

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

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.