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entheognosis · 2 days
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thecalminside · 6 months
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But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
-Alan Watts
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nobeerreviews · 1 month
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The sound of the rain needs no translation.
-- Alan Watts
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funeral · 2 months
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Memory is an enduring pattern of motion, like the whirlpool, rather than an enduring substance, like a mirror, a wax tablet, or a sheet of paper. If memories are stored in neurons, there is no standing aside from the stream of events, for neurons flow along in the same stream as events outside the skull ... All our insides are outside, there in the physical world. But, conversely, the outside world has no color, shape, weight, heat, or motion without "inside" brains. It has these qualities only in relation to brains, which are, in turn, members of itself.
Alan Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
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quotefeeling · 3 months
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Alan Watts
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You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Alan Watts
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leonardospoetry · 1 year
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We suffer from the delusion that the entire universe is held in order by the categories of human thought, fearing that if we do not hold to them with the utmost tenacity, everything will vanish into chaos.
Alan Watts
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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
Alan Watts
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philosophors · 5 months
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// Art: “Woodland Stream” by Alexander Demetrius Goltz
“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
— Alan Watts
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kellymagovern · 6 months
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You can change at any point in your life. You do not have to explain anything to anyone. Don't allow anyone to hold you back from change.
"You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago." —Alan Watts
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connectingwithsoul · 8 months
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Love is an act of Surrender to another person. -Alan Watts
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entheognosis · 2 months
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thecalminside · 8 months
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
-Alan Watts
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kamala-laxman · 2 months
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Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone. - Alan Watts
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funeral · 2 months
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Wherever people may feel that the ego is located, and however much, or little, of the physical body is identified with it, almost all agree that "I" am not anything outside my skin ... The skin is always considered as a wall, barrier, or boundary which definitively separates oneself from the world—despite the fact that it is covered with pores breathing air and with nerve-ends relaying information. The skin informs us just as much as it outforms; it is as much a bridge as a barrier.
Alan Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
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psykopaths · 6 days
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Solaris, (1972)
Dir - Andrei Tarkovsky
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