Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Watts on Spirituality

Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter. Alan Watts

Understanding comes through awareness. Alan Watts

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. Alan Watts

Bring me a wave separate from the ocean and I will show you a person separate from the universe. Alan Watts

Spirituality needs a beer and a loud burp. Sensuality needs a rough blanket and a hard bed and a cold night with the stars. Alan Watts

We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin. Alan Watts

Man seems to be unable to live without myth, without the belief that the routine and drudgery, the pain and fear of this life have some meaning and goal in the future. Alan Watts

Detachment means to have neither regrets for the past nor fears for the future; to let life take its course without attempting to interfere. Alan Watts

The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away. Alan Watts

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

By holding his breath, he loses it. By letting it go he finds it. Alan Watts

The only way to get the truth is to not believe anything. Alan Watts

The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around; the real, deep down you is the whole universe. Alan Watts

What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself. Alan Watts 

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