Sunday, February 9, 2025

Words to Ponder Over: Allan Watts

Allan Watts (1915-1973) was a British-American writer and self-described "philosopher entertainer".  Steeped in multiple Eastern religious traditions and philosophies, he offers us these words to meditate on when considering life after death:

“[T]he anxiety-laden problem of what will happen to me when I die is, after all, like asking what happens to my fist when I open my hand, or where my lap goes when I stand up.”

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