Peter Fenn Quotes


Faith is a state of openness or trust. Alan Watts Faith 110
We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves. Alan Watts Self 102
Saints need sinners. Alan Watts Need 96
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. Alan Watts Being 93
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. Alan Watts Belief 88
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. Alan Watts Become 88
And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment. Alan Watts Between 87
But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. Alan Watts Altogether 85
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. Alan Watts Common 81
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. Alan Watts Identity 79
We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us. Alan Watts Between 78
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. Alan Watts Religion 78
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 Complete 78
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 Technology 78
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 Imagination 78
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 Faith 78
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. Alan Watts Faith 74
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. Alan Watts Faith 74
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. Alan Watts Inspirational 69
But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. Alan Watts Power 69
To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine. Alan Watts Anger 68
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. Alan Watts Spirituality 66
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. Alan Watts Experience 64
So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level. Alan Watts Another 64
The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile. Alan Watts Efforts 64
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. Alan Watts Capacity 61
To come to your senses you have to go out of your mind. Alan Watts Mind 59
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after. Alan Watts Based 57
Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver. Alan Watts Being 57
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. Alan Watts Reality 54
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. Alan Watts Continuous 53
I owe my solitude to other people. Alan Watts People 53
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 Faith 51
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. Alan Watts Church 50
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. Alan Watts Far 49
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention. Alan Watts Attention 47
So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing. Alan Watts Able 45
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. Alan Watts Change 41
If you say that getting the money is the most important thing youll spend your life completely wasting your time. Youll be doing things you dont like doing in order to go on living that is to go on doing thing you dont like doing which is stupid. Alan Watts Dream 38
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. Alan Watts Truth 36
If you cannot trust yourself you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed Alan Watts Trust 34
If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly. Alan Watts Appear 33
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. Alan Watts Exist 32
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 Work 29
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves. Alan Watts Life 27
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. Alan Watts Image 25
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 History 24
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. Alan Watts Life 16

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