Alan Watts Quotes About Spirituality

Quotes about: Spirituality

• It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things.

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Oddities, Feelings

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.7, Souvenir Press

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

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Humor, Godly

  "The Way of Zen". Book by Alan Watts, 1957.

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

  Alan Watts

  Spirituality, Openness

• A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.

  Alan Watts

  Opposites, Spirituality, Holy

• To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be an empty drudgery, a mere imitation of true spirituality.

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Religious, Men

• The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it.

  Alan Watts

  Self, May, Spirituality

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.56, Souvenir Press

• When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

  Alan Watts

  Mind, Religion, Looks

  Alan Watts (1989). “The way of Zen”, Vintage

• Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are playing a rarified and lofty form of the old ego-game, and that your attainment of any height is apparent to yourself and to others only by contrast with someone else's depth or failure.

  Alan Watts

  Art, Games, Perfection

• We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of the physician. You know, of course, that in ancient times there was no clear distinction between priest and physician.

  Alan Watts

  Science, Tolerance, Religion

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