Alan Watts

Citations

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

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

• “Just as the word "water" is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.”

• “Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared.”

• “If Christianity is wine and Islam coffee, Buddhism is most certainly tea.”