No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
ALAN WATTS The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
ALAN WATTS We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
ALAN WATTS And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, ...
ALAN WATTS So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impos...
ALAN WATTS Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
ALAN WATTS So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they...
ALAN WATTS Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is a...
ALAN WATTS In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about th...
ALAN WATTS I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN WATTS We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
ALAN WATTS Saints need sinners.
ALAN WATTS You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
ALAN WATTS Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
ALAN WATTS No work for love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans fo...
ALAN WATTS Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the s...
ALAN WATTS Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the s...
ALAN WATTS How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instr...
ALAN WATTS The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
ALAN WATTS To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain p...
ALAN WATTS We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptio...
ALAN WATTS We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of fl...
ALAN WATTS We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's u...
ALAN WATTS Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spiritu...
ALAN WATTS The size of the universe depresses many people, but not me, I'm delighted at it
ALAN WATTS The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulatin...
ALAN WATTS But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
ALAN WATTS In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the Unit...
ALAN WATTS You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the oce...
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 And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
ALAN WATTS The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
ALAN WATTS Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN WATTS You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
ALAN WATTS I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which i...
ALAN WATTS No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for...
ALAN WATTS How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instr...
ALAN WATTS The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identica...
ALAN WATTS But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet,...
ALAN WATTS To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water,...
ALAN WATTS Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between ri...
ALAN WATTS Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inherita...
ALAN WATTS The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying t...
ALAN WATTS What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that&#...
ALAN WATTS So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.
ALAN WATTS The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become i...
ALAN WATTS Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
ALAN WATTS Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritanc...
ALAN WATTS But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
ALAN WATTS The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel li...
ALAN WATTS But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
ALAN WATTS The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
ALAN WATTS To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light ...
ALAN WATTS Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepe...
ALAN WATTS The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the s...
ALAN WATTS (At times), no one could tell whether he was in deep meditation or fast asleep.
ALAN WATTS Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.
ALAN WATTS If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be para...
ALAN WATTS Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
ALAN WATTS A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
ALAN WATTS But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
ALAN WATTS Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous halluci...
ALAN WILSON WATTS The menu is not the meal.
ALAN W. WATTS The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
ALAN W. WATTS You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of ...
ALAN W. WATTS We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called prese...
ALAN W. WATTS I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which i...
ALAN W. WATTS This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and ...
ALAN W. WATTS Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN W. WATTS Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the s...
ALAN W. WATTS You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the oce...
ALAN W. WATTS Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture,...
ALAN W. WATTS The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, every...
ALAN W. WATTS Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN W. WATTS We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own....
ALAN W. WATTS Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepe...
ALAN W. WATTS We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's u...
ALAN W. WATTS And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As i...
ALAN W. WATTS The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
ALAN W. WATTS It's like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash! And all that ink spread. And i...
ALAN W. WATTS If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely was...
ALAN W. WATTS Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One lear...
ALAN W. WATTS To Taoism that which is absolutely still or absolutely perfect is absolutely dead, for without the p...
ALAN W. WATTS Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but infe...
ALAN W. WATTS Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
ALAN W. WATTS The source of all light is in the eye.
ALAN W. WATTS In a relativistic universe you don't cling to anything, you learn to swim. And you know what swimmin...
ALAN W. WATTS It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
ALAN W. WATTS The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that mos...
ALAN W. WATTS Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
ALAN W. WATTS To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, bec...
ALAN W. WATTS We think that the world is limited and explained by its past. We tend to think that what happened in...
ALAN W. WATTS What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the ...
ALAN W. WATTS We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," th...
ALAN W. WATTS Confucians, along with Hebrew, Islamic, and Catholic scholastics, as well as Protestant fundamentali...
ALAN W. WATTS Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars...
ALAN W. WATTS By itself, a tree is meaningless, but it is the meaning of the word “tree.
ALAN W. WATTS One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said...
ALAN W. WATTS You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
ALAN W. WATTS In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
ALAN W. WATTS Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to ...
ALAN W. WATTS What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conv...
ALAN W. WATTS Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
ALAN W. WATTS Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in prin...
ALAN W. WATTS If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this...
ALAN W. WATTS The natural world gives us many examples of the great effectiveness of this way. The Chinese philoso...
ALAN W. WATTS A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each o...
ALAN W. WATTS Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writ...
ALAN W. WATTS Discord on one level is harmony on another
ALAN W. WATTS when somebody plays music, you listen. you just follow those sounds, and eventually you understand t...
ALAN W. WATTS Thought and science are therefore raising problems which their terms of study can never answer, many...
ALAN W. WATTS Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that ther...
ALAN W. WATTS I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN W. WATTS Although the rhythm of the waves beats a kind of time, it is not clock or calendar time. It has no u...
ALAN W. WATTS I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. ...
NAOMI WATTS There's so much focus on celebrity these days; we're in the Kardashian era, and it's sli...
NAOMI WATTS Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and ...
NAOMI WATTS Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.
NAOMI WATTS Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so ma...
NAOMI WATTS It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer...
NAOMI WATTS It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I tol...
NAOMI WATTS There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, ...
NAOMI WATTS Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to ref...
NAOMI WATTS There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to def...
NAOMI WATTS If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women,...
NAOMI WATTS Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.
NAOMI WATTS Maybe in the workplace I have more courage than other areas in my life.
NAOMI WATTS Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieve...
NAOMI WATTS I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, ...
NAOMI WATTS I wish I'd started having kids sooner so I could have had a few more.
NAOMI WATTS I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has...
NAOMI WATTS There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do you...
NAOMI WATTS As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit rec...
NAOMI WATTS There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna ...
NAOMI WATTS I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not...
NAOMI WATTS I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.
NAOMI WATTS You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.
NAOMI WATTS I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold
ISAAC WATTS Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penet...
ISAAC WATTS Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
ISAAC WATTS I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
ISAAC WATTS The Lord builds up Jerusalem,
And gathers nations to his Name:
His mercy melts the stubborn so...
ISAAC WATTS Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, a...
ISAAC WATTS INNOVATION is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.
WATTS HUMPREY 'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber aga...
ISAAC WATTS For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.
ISAAC WATTS Maundy Thursday Jesus invites His saints To meet around His board; Here pardon'd rebels sit...
ISAAC WATTS Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus There is a stream, whose gentle flow Supplies the city...
ISAAC WATTS Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr Joy to the world! the Lord is come! Let earth receive her ...
ISAAC WATTS CHRISTMAS DAY The King of glory sends his Son, To make his entrance on this earth; Behold the midni...
ISAAC WATTS Justice and Judgment are thy throne Yet wondrous is thy grace; While truth and mercy joined in one...
ISAAC WATTS PSALM 126 The Lord can clear the darkest skies Can give us day for night. Make drops of sacred so...
ISAAC WATTS Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearm...
ISAAC WATTS Ascension Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the ...
ISAAC WATTS Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974 My God, how endless is Thy love! Thy gi...
ISAAC WATTS For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.
ISAAC WATTS A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.
ISAAC WATTS How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book Go...
ISAAC WATTS But Thy good word informs my soul How I may climb to heaven.
ISAAC WATTS Let not soft slumber close your eyes, Before you've collected thrice The train of action throu...
ISAAC WATTS Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.
ISAAC WATTS In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past, That I may give for every da...
ISAAC WATTS How fine has the day been! how bright was the sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run! ...
ISAAC WATTS But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never mad...
ISAAC WATTS How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day Fro...
ISAAC WATTS Misty Copeland is making history. During American Ballet Theatre's current season at the Metropo...
HEATHER WATTS I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't abo...
CHARLIE WATTS Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
ISAAC WATTS Parisian women have an inner elegance that's envied the world over. They are so relaxed about ag...
NAOMI WATTS He (Gould) didn't like being looked at that made an ongoing concert career impossible. He didn't enj...
ANDRE WATTS It's not enough to play the best you can it takes a certain amount of luck. It's like blessings from...
ANDRE WATTS The last few years have been a bit of a struggle. I got over the brain thing and my hand has come ba...
ANDRE WATTS He (Gould) didn't like being looked at – that made an ongoing conce...
ANDRE WATTS The conductor said that I won precisely because I made this mistake and managed to continue playing.
ANDRE WATTS When you went to hear one of these people, ... it was their conviction that got you. They were each ...
ANDRE WATTS It's not enough to play the best you can – it takes a certain amoun...
ANDRE WATTS I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people.
HEATHER WATTS Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let ...
HEATHER WATTS I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be care...
REGGIE WATTS The mind does different things in performance, and conscious thought sometimes takes a backseat.
REGGIE WATTS With her grace and grit, and the will to lead change, Misty Copeland is truly a ballerina for our ti...
HEATHER WATTS When I was about 14, my family emigrated from England to Australia, and we decided to stop in Bali o...
NAOMI WATTS I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist. I try not to talk about something unles...
REGGIE WATTS When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous.
NAOMI WATTS We had the wind advantage and it was too close for me to try to chip it. We needed that goal before ...
BRANDY WATTS They surprised us a little bit. We didn't adjust anything, we just got our heads back in the game an...
BRANDY WATTS It's close to home and I get a chance to keep playing soccer. I wasn't ready to give it up.
BRANDY WATTS I think it will be tougher because we're going to start getting into a lot better teams and the offe...
BRANDY WATTS It was the best side has played.
BOB WATTS We believe in communities in America.
BOB WATTS If we don't make offers (today), we're behind schedule.
BOB WATTS Another thing we need to concern ourselves with on the coast, is the (hurricane) season is not over.
BOB WATTS Yesterday Governor Perry declared Texas a state of disaster.
BOB WATTS Everybody was talking about it. I've seen the plane fly over several times. It's got a roar. I just ...
BOB WATTS We are excited about the beneficial use of our landfill gas. With Granger, we have been able to take...
BOB WATTS Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn'...
NAOMI WATTS It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a cha...
CHARLIE WATTS Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things w...
ISAAC WATTS This is the worst time to miss a bill. Pay down any large credit card or other large revolving accou...
CRAIG WATTS The Pavilions really knocked themselves out.
DAVE WATTS