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“You’re not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.”

— Alan Watts nostr:note1v9xj702mxhx8mxz2gq8jfy0j4hrd2va0g0jn07rq2wnw0tmj6ctscfutpn

Sam Harris has lost the way.

His insistence that we have no free will is absurd on its face.

“To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it.”

— Alan Watts, Behold The Spirit

"We can no more find a method for knowing God than for making God, because the knowledge of God is God himself dwelling in the soul. The most we can do is to prepare for his entry, to get out of his way, to remove the barriers, for until God himself acts within us there is nothing positive that we can do in this direction. We may, however, be certain that he will act—indeed, that he is *already* acting—though we have difficulty in becoming aware of this action because we are always trying to put imitations and substitutes of our own in its place. We fail to see through the window because we are painting pictures on the glass."

— Alan Watts, Behold The Spirit

Have a blessed Sunday.

“What the child received on another’s authority, the adult will know as his own inner experience.”

— Alan Watts, Behold The Spirit

“There’s a wonderful story you may also have read by a German writer, von Kleist, about a boxing match with a bear. The man can never defeat this bear because the bear always knows his plans in advance and is ready to deal with any situation. The only way to get through to the bear would be to hit the bear without having first intended to do so. That would catch him. And so this is one of the great, great problems in the spiritual life, or whatever you want to call it: is to be able to have intention and act simultaneously.”

— Alan Watts, Taoist Way