The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe. Alan Watts More Quotes by Alan Watts More Quotes From Alan Watts As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses. Alan Watts eagles flower philosophy Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver. Alan Watts buddhism law ideas How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead? Alan Watts did-you-know alive knows Just what should a young man or woman know to be 'in the know'? Is there, in other words, some inside information, some special taboo, some real lowdown on life and existence that most parents and teachers either don't know or won't tell? Alan Watts real teacher men The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. Alan Watts style different church We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness. Alan Watts accountability be-careful doe 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 incredibles world ideas What are we saying when we say now, something is holy? That means you should take a different attitude to what you are doing than if you were, for example, doing it for kicks. Alan Watts example attitude mean Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will? Alan Watts know-how conscious knows What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it. Alan Watts safety imagine painful The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity. Alan Watts religious ideas religion No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary. Alan Watts currents superstitions risk For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God. Alan Watts vision giving-up ideas The mind's the standard of the man. Alan Watts he-man mind men The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe. Alan Watts marvelous gentleman ideas Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space. Alan Watts patterns space inspiring For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization. Alan Watts anxiety intelligent organization Now, you see, if you understand what I'm saying, with your intelligence, and then take the next step and say "But I understood it now, but I didn't feel it." Then, next I raise the question: Why do you want to feel it? You say: "I want something more", because that's again that spiritual greed. And you could only say that because you didn't understand it. Alan Watts want-something greed spiritual You are something that the whole world is doing just as when the sea has waves on it. Alan Watts wave sea world The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies. Alan Watts dangerous-situations risk past
