Alan Watts

(1915–1973) · British Philosopher

Was an English writer, speaker, and self-styled "philosophical entertainer", known for interpreting and popularising Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience.

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Alan Watts

(1915–1973) · British Philosopher

Was an English writer, speaker, and self-styled "philosophical entertainer", known for interpreting and popularising Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
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.
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.
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.

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