There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to "get culture" or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost.

— Alan Watts The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)

More quotes by Alan Watts

The Two Hands of God : The Myths of Polarity (1963)

The Nature of Consciousness; also published as What Is Reality? (1989)

The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)

The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)

The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)

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