Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know-- 10 Quotes By Alan Watts

Alan Watts was a great importer of Zen and Daoism to the western world. I highly recomend two of his books, "Becoming What You Are" and "The Meaning of Happiness."

1. "You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you." 
2. "Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes." 
3. "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." 
4. "But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be." 
5. "You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean." 
6. "A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world." 
7. "We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society." 
8. "But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything." 
9. "The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention." 
10. "This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”