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

— Alan Watts

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.

— Alan Watts

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

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

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

— Alan Watts

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

— Alan Watts

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

— Alan Watts

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

— Alan Watts

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

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