Objects are events

Objects are also events,... our world is a collection of processes rather than entities.

Alan Watts in "The Way of Zen" page 25

Freedom from Convention

To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it. It is to be able to use it as an instrument instead of being used by it.

Alan Watts in "The Way of Zen" page 31

A Way of Liberation

A way of liberation can have no positive definition. It has to be suggested by saying what is not.

Alan Watts in "The Way of Zen" page 23

Words

Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Alan Watts in "The Way of Zen" page 24

Conventional Knowledge

The reason why Taoism and Zen present, at first sight, such a puzzle to the Western mind is that we have taken a restricted view of human knowledge. For us, almost all knowledge is what a Taoist would call conventional knowledge, because we do not feel that we really know anything unless we can represent it to ourselves in words, or in some other system of conventional signs such as the notations of mathematics or music.

Alan Watts in "The Way of Zen" page 24

Chinese Proverb

One showing is worth a hundred sayings.

Alan Watts in "The Way of Zen" page 29