Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.- Alan Watts
You do not look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that is what people do.
We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you do not grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they do not know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
