Alan Watts Quotes

Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.

Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God.

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes, I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something, I'm listening to God.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.

I've always believed in a higher power. You can call it God, you can call it Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Allah, I don't care. I really believe we are all a part of God.

I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.

It is said that God notes each sparrow that falls. And so He does. But the proper closest statement of it that can be made in English is that God cannot avoid noting the sparrow because the Sparrow is God. And when a cat stalks a sparrow both of them are God, carrying out God's thoughts.

All of it is God, and there is nothing else.

God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.

And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children. And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain. You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees.

God is that indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know.

God is not a person at all. You cannot worship God. You can live in a godly way but you cannot worship God - there is nobody to worship. All your worship is sheer stupidity, all your images of God are your own creation. There is no God as such, but there is godliness, certainly - in the flowers, in the birds, in the stars, in the eyes of the people, when a song arises in the heart and poetry surrounds you... all this is God. Let us say 'godliness' rather than using the word 'God' - that word gives you the idea of a person, and God is not a person but a presence.

How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.

Everything that is seen and everything that is unseen is God.

God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod.

That All-That-Isness that is responding to your vibration is that which you call God.

The person is only a phenomenon, the principle is behind it. Thus from both sides, simultaneously, we find the breaking down of personalities and the approach towards principles, the Personal God approaching the Impersonal, the personal man approaching the Impersonal Man.

Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is its word for God.

Nature is saturated with Deity.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

God doesn't know things. He is things.

The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.