Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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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Society is our extended mind and body.
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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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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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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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The menu is not the meal.
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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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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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