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 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

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way…

Alan Watts

...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.

Alan Watts

We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.

Alan Watts

And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords

Alan Watts

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

Alan Watts

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

Alan Watts

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

Alan Watts

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Alan Watts

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Alan Watts