Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.
Alan WattsThe difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
Alan WattsAnd 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.
Alan WattsLike too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.
Alan Watts