Alan Watts

The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.

Alan Watts

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

Alan Watts

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

Alan Watts

The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

Alan Watts

The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs.

Alan Watts

The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn’t contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern language, is the entire complex of relationships in whose context this organism exists.

Alan Watts

The sound of the rain needs no translation.

Alan Watts

The source of all light is in the eye.

Alan Watts

The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

Alan Watts

The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.

Alan Watts