Alan Watts Quotes

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

There is only one issue: man's lack of experience in feeling his Divine self and his innate connection with the Divine. All other issues stem from this.

I believe that there is God in all of us.

You use the body as a medium to bring the mind back to the brain. Perfect married between body and mind. Then, you can knock the door to the spirit.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.

Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

Though we are not Almighty God Himself, nevertheless, we are now divine.

I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across.

People need to know that they are God. We mostly do not recognize that. We've lost the sense of our own divinity.

My belief in God is that God wants you. God wants you to believe in him, or it, whatever you would call it.

My thoughts about God are vague and abstract. My connection with the energy of the universe is shaky.

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill a man you deprive him of that birthright of it.

I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.

The cross reveals that we're called to a deeper, fuller experience of what it means to be alive and open to new dimensions of life which our religious boundaries - creeds, atonement theologies - have kept us from experiencing.

Some say that sudden knowledge of mystical matters is accomplished only in complete quietude, or that Creator, in one of God's many forms, appears only in orderly ways that are beauteous and picturesque, or that the mystical appears only in completely silent ways. All are true. Except for the 'only' part.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.