The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
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The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.Alan Watts
No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.
Alan Watts
Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.
Alan Watts
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
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Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
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