We suffer from the delusion that the entire universe is held in order by the categories of human thought, fearing that if we do not hold to them with the utmost tenacity, everything will vanish into chaos.
~Alan Watts
Faith
… faith is not clinging but letting go.
~Alan Watts
Do nothing
To really do nothing, with perfection, is as difficult as doing everything.
~Alan Watts
Breathe
You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you.
~Alan Watts
Wave
You and I are as continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. The ocean waves, the universe peoples. But we have been hypnotized—literally hypnotized—into feeling and sensing that we exist as separate entities inside our own skin.
~Alan Watts
People
But you see, people are much more interesting if you don’t cling to them.
~Alan Watts
The art of living
The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.
~Alan Watts
Miraculous
When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.
~Alan Watts
Zen
Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.
~Alan Watts
The task
The task of a liberated person is not to scold the world and preach to it but to delight it back to its senses.
~Alan Watts
a joyful life 