Alan Watts

The whole history of religion is the history of the failure of preaching. Preaching is moral violence.

Alan Watts

The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is.

Alan Watts

There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.

Alan Watts

There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.

Alan Watts

There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to ‘get culture’ or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost.

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

Those who speak, do not know; those who know, do not speak.

Alan Watts

Thought is a means of concealing truth.

Alan Watts

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

Alan Watts

Time itself is a creation of the restless mind; space has been created by the same mind to give itself room to wander when in fact there is no space beyond a mental construct that, like all constructs, eventually turns into a prison.

Alan Watts