Alan Watts Quotes About Transformation

Quotes about: Transformation

• 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

• But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.

  Alan Watts

  Skills, Perception, Taoism

  Alan Watts (1970). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”

• 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

• But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my" thoughts and actions---were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that "I make them"; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of opposites.

  Alan Watts

  Opposites, Play, Choices

  Alan Watts (2017). “Psychotherapy East & West”, p.65, New World Library

• Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves and our world.

  Alan Watts

  Our World, Doctrine, Way

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