Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
Alan WattsThe style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
Alan WattsThrough our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
Alan WattsJust as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
Alan WattsWe suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that "I myself" is a seperate center of feeling and action, living inside and bounded by the physical body-a center which "confronts" an "external" world of people and things, making contact through the senses with a universe both alien and strange.
Alan Watts