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. Alan Watts Read Quote
The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present. Alan Watts Read Quote
What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do. Alan Watts Read Quote
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. Alan Watts Read Quote
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. Alan Watts Read Quote
But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. Alan Watts Read Quote
We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us. Alan Watts Read Quote