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In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way (Alan Watts Quotes)
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all (Alan Watts Quotes)
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe (Alan Watts Quotes)
You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you (Alan Watts Quotes)
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes (Alan Watts Quotes)
...for since there is no real ‘way’ to sartori, the way you are following makes very little difference (Alan Watts Quotes)
...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word’s use, from animal lust to divine charity (Alan Watts Quotes)
...the habitual dualist’s solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns (Alan Watts Quotes)
...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters (Alan Watts Quotes)
The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present (Alan Watts Quotes)
Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination (Alan Watts Quotes)
There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it (Alan Watts Quotes)
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion (Alan Watts Quotes)
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 (Alan Watts Quotes)
If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed (Alan Watts Quotes)
Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown (Alan Watts Quotes)
But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies (Alan Watts Quotes)
What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call the here and now. You are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that the wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around. The real deep-down you is the whole universe (Alan Watts Quotes)
Imagine a multidimensiona l spider’s web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image (Alan Watts Quotes)
When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of your mind (Alan Watts Quotes)
Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown cannot be avoided, that ‘I’ cannot continue, and that nothing can be ultimately fixed. When a man knows this, he lives for the first time in his life. By holding his breath, he loses it. By letting go he finds it (Alan Watts Quotes)
Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol (Alan Watts Quotes)
Just what should a young man or woman know to be ‘in the know’? Is there, in other words, some inside information, some special taboo, some real lowdown on life and existence that most parents and teachers either don’t know or won’t tell? (Alan Watts Quotes)
As the fish doesn’t know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything (Alan Watts Quotes)
Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don’t learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life (Alan Watts Quotes)
The police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children and little old ladies find their way home. As long as the police confine themselves to such activities they are respected friends of the public. But as soon as they begin inquiring into people’s private morals, they become nothing more than armed clergymen (Alan Watts Quotes)
The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That’s why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game (Alan Watts Quotes)
Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others. They do not belong to particular persons any more than the sun, moon and stars (Alan Watts Quotes)
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money... they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination (Alan Watts Quotes)
No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary... (Alan Watts Quotes)