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Alan Watts

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Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.


— Alan Watts


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But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.


— Alan Watts


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A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.


— Alan Watts


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The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.


— Alan Watts


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But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.


— Alan Watts


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In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.


— Alan Watts


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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.


— Alan Watts


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We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.


— Alan Watts


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About Alan Watts

Alan Watts Quotes




Did you know about Alan Watts?

In his autobiography he wrote "… cultural renewal comes about when highly differentiated cultures mix". His legacy has been kept alive by his son Mark Watts and by many of his recorded talks and lectures that have found new life on the Internet. Dionysius (translation from Greek of Pseudo-Dionysius available online)
1947 Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion Vintage 1972 ISBN 0-394-71761-9
1950 Easter: Its Story and Meaning
1950 The Supreme Identity Vintage 1972.

He also explored human consciousness in the essay "The New Alchemy" (1958) and in the book The Joyous Cosmology (1962). Living on the West Coast Watts gained a large following in the San Francisco Bay Area while working as a volunteer programmer at KPFA a Pacifica Radio station in Berkeley. Watts became an Episcopal priest but left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.

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