Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 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.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'Faith is a state of openness or trust.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Michel de Montaigne: 'A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Michel de Montaigne: 'Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Michel de Montaigne: 'The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.' Read More Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Michel de Montaigne: 'One may be humble out of pride.' Read More Newer Posts Older Posts
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 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.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'Faith is a state of openness or trust.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Alan Watts: 'But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Michel de Montaigne: 'A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Michel de Montaigne: 'Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Michel de Montaigne: 'The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.' Read More
Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Quote Interpretation 7 10/26/23 Michel de Montaigne: 'One may be humble out of pride.' Read More