“An atheist is very often an atheist because he cannot stand the idea that God is watching him all the time, that there is this constant all-seeing eye prying on your most private life and that there's this—you know how when you're a child in school and you’re writing something or doing arithmetic and the teacher walks around the class and looks over your shoulder? Nobody wants to be watched like that, even someone who's good at writing or at arithmetic doesn't want somebody looking over their shoulder while they're doing it. It puts you off. It bugs you. So the idea of the Lord God who is watching us all the time, who is judging everything that we do, puts people off and they can't stand it. So better be an atheist to get rid of teacher.” — Alan Watts, Buddhism As Dialogue

Reasons atheism makes no sense: 1. You are a conscious being thinking and feeling right now. Why would you assume there was no conscious being thinking and feeling at the time of The Big Bang as well? 2. The second law of thermodynamics states that energy and matter are neither created nor destroyed, but merely transformed from one form to another. Therefore, why would you assume consciousness disappears entirely when someone dies, rather than simply be transformed? 3. There are no separate things or events. It’s all one happening. Your delusion that you are just poor little me encased in a bag of skin is rendered absurd once you take the simple steps of describing your actions which are intertwined with your environment, which itself extends to the entire cosmos. Tat tvam asi. View quoted note →

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“There are in nature, in the actual physical universe, no such things as things, and no such happenings as events. They're all invented by us in the same way as we invent lines of latitude and longitude, inches, meters, minutes, and hours. They're all measures. They don't really exist out there, but we choose certain lines.” — Alan Watts, Symbolic and the Real

“Anybody who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.” — Alan Watts, Philosophies of Asia

“If you plan to change your life, shall we say, to turn over a new leaf, you mustn't let the devil know, because he will oppose you with all his might if he suddenly discovers that you're going to escape from his power. So, for example, if you have a bad habit, say you drink too much, and you make a New Year's resolution that during this coming year you'll stop drinking, that's a very, very dangerous thing to do, because the devil will immediately know about it.” — Alan Watts, Taoist Way

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“There is a story of a Chinese sage who was asked, ‘How shall we escape the heat?’—meaning, of course, the heat of suffering. He answered, ‘Go right into the middle of the fire.’ ‘But how, then, shall we escape the scorching flame?’ ‘No further pain will trouble you.’” — Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

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“Odd as it may sound, the ego finds that its own center and nature is beyond itself. The more deeply I go into myself, the more I am not myself, and yet this is the very heart of me. Here I find my own inner workings functioning of themselves, spontaneously, like the rotation of the heavenly bodies and the drifting of the clouds. Strange and foreign as this aspect of myself at first seems to be, I soon realize that it is me, and much more me than my superficial ego. This is not fatalism or determinism, because there is no longer anyone being pushed around or determined; there is nothing that this deep ‘I’ is not doing. The configuration of my nervous system, like the configuration of the stars, happens of itself, and this ‘itself’ is the real ‘myself.’” — Alan Watts, This Is It

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The exact lines from Hamlet: “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” (Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5) View quoted note →

“There is more in heaven and earth than is dreamed of in your philosophy.” — Alan Watts quoting Shakespeare, This Is It