Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Quote by Alan Watts

Topics: Zen Quotes

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just...

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just...

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they...

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they...

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an...

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an...

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them...

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them...

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave...

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave...

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far...

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far...

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance,...

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance,...

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being,...

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being,...

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen...

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen...

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to...

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to...

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity...

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity...

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't...

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't...

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of...

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of...