Alan Watts

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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But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. ↗

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

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

— Alan Watts

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