A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
ALAN WATTSThe only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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We 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.
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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.
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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