All ALAN WATTS Quotes about “Culture”

“Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, theyâ€™ll say youâ€™re crazy and youâ€™re blasphemous, and theyâ€™ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, â€˜My goodness, Iâ€™ve just discovered that Iâ€™m God,â€™ theyâ€™ll laugh and say, â€˜Oh, congratulations, at last you found out.”
“We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.”
“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.”
“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time”
“Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use, it has a use - which may sound like a paradox, but is not. What, for instance, is the use of playing music? If you play to make money, to outdo some other artist, to be a person of culture, or to improve your mind, you are not really playing - for your mind is not on the music. You don't swing. When you come to think of it, playing or listening to music is a pure luxury, an addiction, a waste of valuable time and money for nothing more than making elaborate patterns of sound.”
“Sexual love is a troubled and problematic relationship in cultures where there is a strong sense of man's separation from nature, especially when the realm of nature is felt to be inferior or contaminated with evil.”
“A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.”

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