Alan Watts

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“... Irreducible Rascality ...”
“... the creator and the creature are one ...”
“A chicken is one egg’s way of becoming others. …
“A lot of people would say, ‘I like to have a religion because it gives me something to hold onto.’ Buddhists would say, So long as you hold onto something, you don’t have religion. You’re only really there when you let go of everything, and you don’t depend on any fixed idea, any belief for your sanity or happiness.”
“A net designed for catching water”
“Benevolent despot and authoritative patriarch”
“On Dancing as a Metaphor for Life”
“On intellectualizing”
“On knowing when to stop eating ...”
“On Orthodox Definitions of God”
“On the guarantee of the existence of God.”
“The literary descriptions of hell are always more interesting than the literary descriptions of heaven.”
“The notion of God as presented by tradition, whether Hebrew or Christian, is utterly distasteful, but mechanistic atheism is equally distasteful ...”
“The real world, now, is spiritual. …”
“Waking up …
4 Questions
Alan Watts Org
Alan Watts, On Psychedelic Experiences
Heart of Buddhism
Lila (“divine play”)
On individual v. environment
Problems of Preaching
Self v. Other
Uncarved Stone