Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

By: Allan Watts 

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

By: Allan Watts 

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

By: Allan Watts 

I owe my solitude to other people.

By: Allan Watts 

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

By: Allan Watts 

If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

By: Allan Watts 

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

By: Allan Watts 

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery - the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets - is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.

By: Allan Watts 

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

By: Allan Watts