“What wasn’t understood then, and still isn’t really understood today, is that the reality of money is of the same type as the reality of centimeters, grams, hours, or lines of longitude. Money is a way of measuring wealth but is not wealth in itself.”
— Alan Watts, Does It Matter? 
“Artists have always been important prophets of social change, and the increasingly favored ‘psychedelic’ style is anything but undisciplined. Using intense color and highly articulate detail of line and form, the exponents of this style are restoring a sheer glory to Western art that has not been seen since the days of French and Celtic illuminated manuscripts, the stained glass of Chartres, and the luminous enamelwork of Limoges. It calls to mind the jeweled gardens of Persian miniatures, the rhythmic intricacy of Moorish arabesques, and the golden filigree of Hindu textiles.”
— Alan Watts, Does It Matter?
Part of why I created this account on Twitter, and now on Nostr, is I was tired of seeing the same dozen or so Alan Watts quotes posted over and over, and only being able to find those on search. So, I started posting the ones I find noteworthy as I read his books and listen to his lectures. I now also cite where each of his quotes come from, so it’s easy for others to verify and source. nostr:note1gpfgcr2dwqzv9mewl6nfm74u7zmwfax0mrg5ju6d42lfazg37zvs9yw0vz
Alan Watts predicts #Bitcoin (1971) nostr:note14rxkxjj0fgml0a04lmt3l9k5tryl00ruu2zhect6ajfy0dnasgjsjz6qg5
“No one goes into debt except in emergency; and therefore, prosperity depends on maintaining the perpetual emergency of war. We are reduced, then, to the suicidal expedient of inventing wars when, instead, we could simply have invented money—provided that the amount invented was always proportionate to the real wealth being produced. We should replace the gold standard by the wealth standard.”
— Alan Watts, Does It Matter? 
Funny how many AI’s in sci-fi books/films canonically speak in a clunkier way than real AI’s do today.
“The way to do is to be.”
— Alan Watts quoting Lao Tzu 
In order to stay humble you must first become humble. #Bitcoin 
Follow the orange light. #Bitcoin 
“The presence of God as the Eternal Now is a truth which, at least in part, should be able to penetrate our consciousness with ease. God has made it that way out of love. When this is understood it is obvious that walking, eating, sitting, washing and working are done in God, may therefore be done in a contemplative way, to the glory of God, and thus done constitute the real translation of liturgy into life.”
— Alan Watts, Behold the Spirit 
