Alan Watts

"Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax."

"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on."

"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."

"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."

"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention."

"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."

"You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes."

"I owe my solitude to other people."

"But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything."

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

"But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is."

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

"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god."

"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command."

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

"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."

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

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

"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."

"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe."

"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."

"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."