“The word yoga, as most of you doubtless know, is the same as our word yoke. And the Latin word iungere, to join. Join, junction, yolk, union — all these words are basically from the same root. And so likewise when Jesus said “my yoke is easy,” he was saying really “my yoga is easy.” And the word therefore basically denotes the state that would be the opposite of what our psychologists call alienation…” ~ Alan Watts
Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in England in 1915, Alan was an Episcopalian priest who became the spokesperson for Eastern religions during the late 1950s and tumultuous 60s. His first book, The Spirit of Zen, however, was written in the 30s when Watts was just 20 years old. He went on to write more than twenty other books. He died in 1973.
