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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
Alan Watts Quotes
Confuse
Spirituality
Potatoes
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said. ― Alan Wilson Watts
Alan Watts Quotes
Adequately
Poetry
Talked
To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is no escape. ― Alan Wilson Watts
Alan Watts Quotes
Remain
Yourself
Fighting
One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt. ― Alan Wilson Watts
Alan Watts Quotes
Deal
Great
Anxious
If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go. ― Alan Wilson Watts
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Belief
Likewise
Clinging
And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning. ― Alan Wilson Watts
Alan Watts Quotes
People
Meaning
Dictionary
To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet. ― Alan Wilson Watts
Alan Watts Quotes
Plainly
Security
Feeling
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. ― Alan Watts
Alan Watts Quotes
Continuous
Physical
Universe
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. ― Alan Watts
Alan Watts Quotes
Possible
Sensitive
Musical
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 Wilson Watts
Alan Watts Quotes
Quoted
Christian
Transformation
But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything. ― Alan Watts
Alan Watts Quotes
Hermits
Realize
Understand
Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social environment. ― Alan Wilson Watts
Alan Watts Quotes
People
Attitudes
Ourselves
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion. ― Alan Watts
Alan Watts Quotes
Filled
Love-play
Compassion
So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself. ― Alan Wilson Watts
Alan Watts Quotes
Relationship
Impossible
Defined
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago. ― Alan Watts
Alan Watts Quotes
Obligation
Under
Minutes
Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown. ― Alan Wilson Watts
Alan Watts Quotes
Commitment
Suicide
Positive
What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it. ― Alan Wilson Watts
Alan Watts Quotes
Safety
Discover
Imagine
Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home. ― Alan Wilson Watts
Alan Watts Quotes
Maximum
Wandering
Discovering
If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world. ― Alan Wilson Watts
Alan Watts Quotes
Awareness
Whether
Actually
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. ― Alan Watts
Alan Watts Quotes
Never
Actually
Command