Beyond Theology Quotes

“You don't have to let go, because there's nothing to hold onto.
--Alan Watts”
― Alan Watts, Beyond Theology: The Art of Godsmanship

“In the same way, the biographies of the Christian saints abound in stories of overcoming the Devil by what St. Francis Xavier called “holy cunning.” For in this case the Devil is one’s own guile, one’s own infinite capacity for looking at oneself looking at oneself looking at oneself, as when one is proud of being humble, proud of recognizing that one is proud of it, and proud of being subtle enough to see that the whole thing is an infinite regression.”
― Alan Watts, Beyond Theology: The Art of Godmanship

“Whereas political order is maintained by force from above, being imposed, organic order arises through the mutual and reciprocal interplay of forces within a field. Armies and machines are ordered politically. But human bodies, forests, ocean-floor communities, biological and botanical regions, planetary biospheres, and, probably, stellar galaxies are ordered organically.”
― Alan W. Watts, Beyond Theology: The Art of Godmanship

“Spirituality needs a beer and a loud burp, just as sensuality needs a bed on the hard ground, a rough blanket, and a long look at the utterly improbable stars.”
― Alan W. Watts, Beyond Theology: The Art of Godmanship