For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found… - Alan Watts

what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.

As poets value the sounds of words above their meanings, and images above arguments, I am trying to get thinking people to be aware of the actual vibrations of life as they would listen to music.

To practice with an end in view is to have one eye on the practice and the other on the end, which is lack of concentration, lack of sincerity.

There emerges, then, a view of life which sees its worth and point not as a struggle for constant ascent but as a dance. Virtue and harmony consist, not in accentuating the positive, but in maintaining a dynamic balance.