The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity. Alan Watts on god
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. Alan Watts on great
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. Alan Watts on great
In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. Alan Watts on history
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. Alan Watts on imagination
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. Alan Watts on inspirational
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 on love
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. Alan Watts on money
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Alan Watts on nature
But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. Alan Watts on power
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 on relationship
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Alan Watts on religion
Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it. Alan Watts on religion
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 on technology
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. Alan Watts on trust
Faith is a state of openness or trust. Alan Watts on trust
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. Alan Watts on truth
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 on work