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Alan Watts Quotes

English - Philosopher | January 6, 1915 - November 16, 1973

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Technology People Universe Hands Who

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.

Nature God Faith Words Religion Who

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

God World Become Difficulty Modern

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

You Find Will Study Always Things

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

God Style Universe Church Natural

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Attitude Faith Truth Go Become Turn

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

Forest You Quiet Go Understand Tell

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Future Past Present Real Illusions

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

World You Try See Pretend Us

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

Doing Not Knowing Done Knowing Just

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.

Environment Skin Kind Inside Outside

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.

Stop Act Being Changing Preaching

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