Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

— Alan W. Watts

Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them.

— Alan W. Watts

Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated

— Alan W. Watts

Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering.

— Alan W. Watts

Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.

— Alan W. Watts

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

— Alan W. Watts

Money alone cannot buy pleasure, though it can help. For enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy.

— Alan W. Watts

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

— Alan W. Watts

My conscious mind must have its roots and origins in the most unfathomable depths of being, yet it feels as if it lived all by itself in this tight little skull.

— Alan W. Watts

Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation.

— Alan W. Watts