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.”
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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 05/17/24
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 05/12/24
From Alan Watts: “I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”
Quote of the day 05/07/24
From Dogen: “Although we say mountains belong to the country, actually, they belong to those that love them.”
05/06/24
From Dogen: “Beings, things, and events do not exist in time: beings, things, and events are times.”
Waiting
I find there to be a kind of liberty in waiting. To be imprisoned in time. Finally an excuse for inaction.
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