"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god."
— Alan Watts"Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things."
— The Buddha"As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed."
— The Buddha"You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean."
— Alan Watts"But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is."
— Alan Watts"Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations."
— Alan Watts"'All conditioned things are impermanent' — when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering."
— The Buddha"The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world."
— The Buddha