Alan Watts

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

Alan Watts

Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.

Alan Watts

Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.

Alan Watts

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

Alan Watts

Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea – the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.

Alan Watts

Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

Alan Watts

Religion is always falling apart.

Alan Watts

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

Alan Watts

Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared.

Alan Watts

Self-consciousness is a stoppage because it is like interrupting a song after every note so as to listen to the echo, and then feeling irritated because of the loss of rhythm.

Alan Watts