The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
ALAN WATTSThe clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
ALAN WATTSI find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
ALAN WATTSIf we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
ALAN WATTSTo travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
ALAN WATTSWe know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
ALAN WATTSIn reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
ALAN WATTSThe only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
ALAN WATTSPeople become concerned with being more humble than other people.
ALAN WATTSYou are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
ALAN WATTSThe past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
ALAN WATTSThe menu is not the meal.
ALAN WATTSSociety is our extended mind and body.
ALAN WATTSIf, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
ALAN WATTSYou are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
ALAN WATTSNothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
ALAN WATTSTrying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN WATTS