Tag: Alan Watts
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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.
Alan Watts
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The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
Alan Watts
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And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.
Alan Watts
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Saints need sinners.
Alan Watts
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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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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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
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So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.
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