Zen … does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

More from Alan Watts

• I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.
• Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
• Accept loss forever
• A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
• A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
• A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. Essays, "Character," 1844