Alan Watts Quotes

Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act.

Nothing about life is sacred until we make it so.

I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue - the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament.

Man makes holy what he believes.

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

Whatever it means for us to exist, we do so as creatures created, as the universe has been created, to glorify God.

Before the sacred, people lost all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my - conscience.

God lays claim to all firsts. So when you keep for yourself something that belongs to God you are desecrating what is to be consecrated to God.

‎What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and work flow.

Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.

The temple is holy because it is not for sale.

The shop, the barn, the scullery, and the smithy become temples when men and women do all to the glory of God! The "divine service" is not a thing of a few hours and a few places, but all life becomes holiness unto the Lord, and every place and thing, as consecrated as the tabernacle and it's golden candlestick.

. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death.

Avoid,Profaneness; come not here: Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, Or that which groaneth to be so, May at his peril further go.

When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred.

The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.

There are not sacred and profane things, places, and moments. There are only sacred and desecrated things, places, and moments-and it is we alone who desecrate them by our blindness and lack of reverence. It is one sacred universe, and we are all a part of it.

Today is important only in light of what we do for God.

My holy of holies is the human body.

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.

Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred.

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.