The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.
More Quotes from Alan Watts:
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.Alan Watts
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
Alan Watts
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
Alan Watts
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
Alan Watts
We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible.
Alan Watts
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Alan Watts
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.Gerhard Schroder
I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques.
Ted Lange
I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care.
Jessica Biel