Alan Watts

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

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

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. ”

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us. ”

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

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. ”

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. ”

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

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens. ”

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