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Alan Watts

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Alan Watts

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

Source/Notes: Paraphrase. Original: "When I use the word mythology, or myth, I don't mean something that is false. I mean an idea or image by which people make sense of the world." Source: "Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life: Collected Talks 1960–1980" (2011 edition) by Allan Watts, p. 99

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Alan Watts

“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.”

Source/Notes: The essence of Alan Watts (1977), p. 4

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Alan Watts

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

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Alan Watts

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

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Alan Watts

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

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Alan Watts

“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.”

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Alan Watts

“But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.”

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Alan Watts

“But to me nothing — the negative, the empty — is exceedingly powerful.”

Source/Notes: The essence of Alan Watts by Alan Watts (1977), p. 74 - ISBN: 9780890872109

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Alan Watts

“But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.”

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Alan Watts

“Faith is a state of openness or trust.”

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Alan Watts

“How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.”

Source/Notes: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are [first published in 1966] (Vintage reissue, 1989), p. 137

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Alan Watts

“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”

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Alan Watts

“I owe my solitude to other people.”

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Alan Watts

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

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