Alan Watts

We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy. ↗

— Alan Watts

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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

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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

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We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. ↗

— Alan Watts

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But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. ↗

— Alan Watts

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

— Alan Watts

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The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention. ↗

— Alan Watts

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

— Alan Watts

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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. ↗

— Alan Watts

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

— Alan Watts

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