"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes."
― Alan Watts
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God
― Alan Watts
More From Alan Watts
- "In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all."
- "The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination."
- "But to me nothing – the negative, the empty – is exceedingly powerful."
More In God
- "O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!"― William Shakespeare
- "It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God."― Thomas Jefferson
- "For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."― Jesus Christ