“ Carried to its final extreme, the logical end of this type of reaction to life is suicide. The hard-bitten kind of person is always, as it were, a partial suicide; some of himself is already dead Alan Watts
“ The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. Alan Watts
“ Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. Alan Watts
“ But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. Alan Watts
“ The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. Alan Watts
“ The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. Alan Watts
“ I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. Alan Watts
“ 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. Alan Watts
“ If we live we live if we die we die if we suffer we suffer if we are terrified we are terrified. There is no problem about it. Alan Watts
“ Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. Alan Watts
“ But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. 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. Alan Watts
