Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.
Alan WattsJust as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.
Alan WattsThe Greek word for sinning means to โmiss the point;โ The point is eternal life which is here and now.
Alan WattsThe problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space quite another, or just nothing whatever. Then it appeared that space was no mere nothing, because solids couldn't do without it. But the mistake in the beginning was to think of solids and space as two different things, instead of as two aspects of the same thing. The point is that they are different but inseparable, like the front end and the rear end of a cat. Cut them apart, and the cat dies.
Alan WattsThere is only this now. It does not come from anywhere; it is not going anywhere. It is not permanent, but it is not impermanent. Though moving, it is always still. When we try to catch it, it seems to run away, and yet it is always here and there is no escape from it. And when we turn around to find the self which knows this moment, we find that it has vanished like the past.
Alan Watts