Alan Watts - Quodid

About

Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British and American writer, speaker, and "philosophical entertainer", known for interpreting and popularising Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience.

Quotes from Alan Watts

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

There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity of the universe, and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do.

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

Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.

Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings the past and the future are not as real, but more real than the present.