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Saints need sinners.

Alan Watts

Saints

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

Alan Watts

Will

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

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

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

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

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.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Alan Watts

Trying

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

Alan Watts

Ocean

Universe

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

Alan Watts

God

Sky