Quote by Alan Watts
We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and num

We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin. – Alan Watts

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The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. – Alan Watts

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No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. – Alan Watts

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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. – Alan Watts

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