Andy Mott

“Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, open-ness—an act of trust in the unknown.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“We do not need a new religion or a new bible. We need a new experience—a new feeling of what it is to be “I.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“no considerate God would destroy the human mind by making it so rigid and unadaptable as to depend upon one book, the Bible, for all the answers. For the use of words, and thus of a book, is to point beyond themselves to a world of life and experience that is not mere words or even ideas. Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“Is there, then, some kind of a lowdown on this astounding scheme of things, something that never really gets out through the usual channels for the Answer—the historic religions and philosophies? There is. It has been said again and again, but in such a fashion that we, today, in this particular civilization do not hear it.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are