The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile. Alan Watts Read Quote
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Alan Watts Read Quote
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. Alan Watts Read Quote
If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly. Alan Watts Read Quote
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. Alan Watts Read Quote
Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver. Alan Watts Read Quote
In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. Alan Watts Read Quote
Wars based on principle are far more destructive… the attacker will not destroy that which he is after. Alan Watts Read Quote
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. Alan Watts Read Quote
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. Alan Watts Read Quote
