“If I want you to listen to music, any advice to do so will drown out the music. The directest way is to play the music itself.” — Alan Watts, Gateless Gate

“Or put in still other words, the first rule of the game is that this game is serious, i.e., is not a game. This might be called the primordial ‘repression.’ By this I do not mean that it is an event at the temporal beginnings of human life, but rather that it may be our most deeply ingrained social attitude.” — Alan Watts, Psychotherapy East & West

“I suppose most of you have heard of Zen, but before going on to explain any details about it, I want to make one thing absolutely clear. I am not a Zen Buddhist. I am not advocating Zen Buddhism. I'm not trying to convert anyone to it. I have nothing to sell. I'm an entertainer.” — Alan Watts, Eco Zen

“When we achieve the fulfillment of Buddhism, there is no Buddha, no temple, no gong, no bell. Because the whole world is the sound of the bell. And the image of Buddha is everything you can look at. So a Zen master was asked, mountains and hills, are they not all forms of the body of Buddha? The master replied, yes they are, but it's a pity to say so.” — Alan Watts, Religion of No Religion

Atheism isn’t just wrong. It is cringe as well.

The crusades were not only justified. They were based as well.

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