Alan Keightley Quotes:

Where do you need to think for yourself? When we begin to cultivate awareness of our thoughts and emotions, we begin to see just how much we live according to other people's and society's beliefs and actions. Don't get upset by this. Just get in touch with how you really think and feel inside and begin to express your authenticity.

Topics: Inspirational, Thinking, People, Think For Yourself, Belief And Action

What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.

Topics: Giving Up, Believe, Important

To have Zen is to be in a state of pure sensation. It is to be freed from the grip of concepts, to see through them. This is not the same as rejecting conceptual thinking. Thoughts and words are in the world and are as natural as flowers. It is a mistake therefore to think that Zen is anti-intellectual.

source: - Alan Keightley (1986). “Into Every Life a Little Zen Must Fall: A Christian Philosopher Looks to Alan Watts and the East”, Wisdom Publications

Topics: Mistake, Flower, Thinking, Conceptual Thinking, Rejecting