Alan Watts

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

#aggressive #altering #america #capacity #gone

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. ↗

— Alan Watts

#enters #into #life #religion #something

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens. ↗

— Alan Watts

#common sense #confronting #culture #feel #identical

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do. ↗

— Alan Watts

#drag #going #living #people #point

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile. ↗

— Alan Watts

#efforts #egos #feel #futile #his

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present. ↗

— Alan Watts

#go #impoverished #live #present #reason

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us. ↗

— Alan Watts

#differentiation #happens #identify #our #us

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after. ↗

— Alan Watts

#based #destroy #destructive #far #more

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. ↗

— Alan Watts

#god #look #out #sky #something

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything. ↗

— Alan Watts

#connected #everything #far #forest #get