Alan Watts Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

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

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

“The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.”

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

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

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

“So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.”

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