How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

— 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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