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Alan Watts

b: Chislehurst, Kent, England, Jan 6, 1915

d: Mt. Tamalpais, California, USA, Nov 16, 1973

Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Pursuing a career, he attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he received a master's degree in theology. Watts became an Episcopalian priest but left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.

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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Saints need sinners.

We are how the universe I's itself.