How can a republic be the best form of government if the universe, heaven and hell are all a monarchy? - Alan Watts

We see it as an eternal arena in which the individual is no more than a temporary stranger — a visitor who hardly belongs — for the thin ray of consciousness does not shine upon its own source. In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself — through our eyes and IT’s.

Tao and Nirvana are only names for an experience; those who invented them had the experience first and gave it its name afterward, but now people are so busy learning about the names that they forget the experience.

Now when God plays hide and pretends that he is you and I, he does it so well that it takes him a long time to remember where and how he hid himself. But that’s the whole fun of it — just what he wanted to do. He doesn’t want to find himself too quickly, for that would spoil the game. That is why it is so difficult for you and me to find out that we are God in disguise,