The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
Alan WattsOur pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure โ attractively packaged but inferior in content.
Alan WattsAnd it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords
Alan WattsTo the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it.
Alan Watts