Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
ALAN WATTSJust as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
More Alan Watts Quotes
-
-
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
ALAN WATTS -
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
ALAN WATTS -
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
ALAN WATTS -
We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
ALAN WATTS -
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
ALAN WATTS -
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
ALAN WATTS -
Society is our extended mind and body.
ALAN WATTS -
To 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 WATTS -
People can’t be talked out of illusions.
ALAN WATTS -
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
ALAN WATTS -
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN WATTS -
We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
ALAN WATTS -
The present is always changing the past.
ALAN WATTS -
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
ALAN WATTS -
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