Alan Watts (1915-1973)

Alan Wilson Watts was a British and American writer, speaker, and self-styled "philosophical entertainer", known for interpreting and popularising Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience.

Quotes

Faith is, above all, openess; an act of trust in the unknown.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Love
But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
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.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.