There is a very interesting Hindu teacher by the name of Krishnamurti whom many of you may know about. He tells people that all of their religious in… - Alan Watts

Buddhism does not deny the Self with a capital S — the great atman or whatnot. What it says is that if you make conceptions and doctrines about these things, you’re liable to become attached to them, and you’ll therefore start believing instead of knowing.

When you realize that you live in, that indeed you are this moment now, and no other, that apart from this there is no past and no future, you must relax and taste to the full, whether it be pleasure or pain. At once it becomes obvious why this universe exists, why conscious beings have been produced, why sensitive organs, why space, time, and change. The whole problem of justifying nature, of trying to make life mean something in terms of its future, disappears utterly. Obviously, it all exists for this moment.

It is a dance, and when you are dancing you are not intent on getting somewhere. You go round and round, but not under the illusion that you are pursuing something, or fleeing from the jaws of hell.

For God is the wholeness of life, which includes every possible aspect of man and is known in accepting the whole of our experience at each moment.