From Alan Watts: “We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
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Quote of the day 05/21/24
From Alan Watts: “The more a person knows of himself, the more he will hesitate to define his nature and to assert what he must necessarily feel, and the more he will be astounded at his capacity to feel in unsuspected and unpredictable ways.”
Quote of the day 05/20/24
From Alan Watts: “Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.”
Quote of the day 05/19/24
From Alan Watts: “Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.”
Quote of the day 05/18/24
From Alan Watts: “In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.”
Quote of the day 05/17/24
From Alan Watts: “A man does not really begin to be alive until he has lost himself, until he has released the anxious grasp which he normally holds upon his life, his property, his reputation and position.”
Quote of the day 05/16/24
From Alan Watts: “And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words… As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.”
Quote of the day 05/15/24
From Alan Watts: “Much of the secret of life consists in knowing how to laugh, and also how to breathe.”
Quote of the day 05/14/24
From Alan Watts: “Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present
Quote of the day 05/13/24
From Alan Watts: “Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”
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