Society is our extended mind and body.
ALAN WATTSA 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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In 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.
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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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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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The present is always changing the past.
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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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