Alan W. Watts Quotes

There Is, Then, The Feeling That We Live In A Time Of Unusual Insecurity. In The Past Hundred Years So Many Long-established Traditions Have Broken Down - Traditions Of Family And Social Life, Of Government, Of The Economic Order, And Of Religious Belief. As The Years Go By, There Seem To Be Fewer And Fewer Rocks To Which We Can Hold, Fewer Things Which We Can Regard As Absolutely Right And True, And Fixed For All Time. To Some This Is A Welcome Release From The Restraints Of Moral, Social, And Spiritual Dogma. To Others It Is A Dangerous And Terrifying Breach With Reason And Sanity, Tending To Plunge Human Life Into Hopeless Chaos. To Most, Perhaps, The Immediate Sense Of Release Has Given A Brief Exhilaration, To Be Followed By The Deepest Anxiety. For If All Is Relative, If Life Is A Torrent Without Form Or Goal In Whose Flood Absolutely Nothing Save Change Itself Can Last, It Seems To Be Something In Which There Is "no Future" And Thus No Hope.

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