Alan Watts Quotes About Myth

Quotes about: Myth

• A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

  Alan Watts

  Trying, World, Term

• The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

  Alan Watts

  Taught Us, Common Sense, Culture

• The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens... within I don't know how many years, but in not too long a time, it's going to become basic common sense that you are not some alien being who confronts an external world that is not you, but that almost every intelligent person will have the feeling of being an activity of the entire universe.

  Alan Watts

  Intelligent, Years, Taught Us

• I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.

  Alan Watts

  Lying, Games, Plot

  "The Two Hands of God : The Myths of Polarity" by Alan Watts, (p. 29), 1963.

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin