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Alan Watts Quotes


A British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience.
Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Pursuing a career, he attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he received a master's degree in theology. Watts became an Episcopal priest but left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.

Here are some famous quotes by Alan Watts.

Faith is above all openness; an act of trust in the unknown.

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

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

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Zen is a way of liberation concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous but what is.

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At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die but do not seem to make a 'problem' of it.

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This-the immediate everyday and present experience-is IT the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.

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If we live we live; if we die we die; if we suffer we suffer; if we are terrified we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

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I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions that they exist only in the present which is what there is and all that there is.

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Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent... this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.