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" And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment. "

Alan Watts

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" The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. "

" 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. "

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

" The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. "

" You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. "

" Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after. "

" If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly. "

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

" Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it. "

" Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. "

" But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. "

Alan Watts

Nothing

Powerful

" We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us. "

Alan Watts

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" In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. "

" What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do. "

" Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. "

" I owe my solitude to other people. "

" 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. "

" Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. "

Alan Watts

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Yourself

" 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. "

" And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. "

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

" Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver. "

" So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level. "

" Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. "

" You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. "

" No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. "

" 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. "

" You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. "

" 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. "