Alan Watts Quotes About Laughter

Quotes about: Laughter

• A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

  Alan Watts

  Christian, Buddhist, Laughter

  Alan Watts (2011). “In My Own Way: An Autobiography”, p.57, New World Library

• Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

  Alan Watts

  Laughter, Humanity, Oneself

• There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substiutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelming uncanny fact of mere existence.

  Alan Watts

  Laughter, Believe, Miracle

• The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe. I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter.

  Alan Watts

  Happiness, Laughter, Believe

• Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

  Alan Watts

  Laughter, Real, Anxiety

  Alan Watts (2011). “In My Own Way: An Autobiography”, p.57, New World Library

• I was talking to a Zen master the other day and he said, "You shall be my disciple."I looked at him and said, "Who was Buddha's teacher?" He looked at me in a very odd way for a moment and then he burst into laughter and handed me a piece of clover.

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Teacher, Laughter

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