And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

— Alan Watts

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

— Alan Watts

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.

— Alan Watts

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

— Alan Watts

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

— Alan Watts

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

— Alan Watts

Carried to its final extreme, the logical end of this type of reaction to life is suicide. The hard-bitten kind of person is always, as it were, a partial suicide; some of himself is already dead

— Alan Watts

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

— Alan Watts

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

— Alan Watts

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