Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness, an act of trust in the unknown.
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Alan Watts
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Non abbiamo un presente. La nostra coscienza è quasi totalmente occupata dal ricordo e dall'aspettativa. Non ci rendiamo conto che non c'è mai stata, non c è e non ci sarà mai altra esperienza che quella del presente.
- Allan Watts
La via della Liberazione
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“No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen”
- Allan Watts
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“Acordar para quem você é requer deixar quem você imagina ser.”
Allan Watts
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The Desire To Do Good
You’re only making a mess by trying to put things straight. You’re trying to straighten out a wiggly world, and no wonder you’re in trouble. Allan Watts
How do you start an essay about seeing this wonderfully wiggly world without mentioning how acutely our people are struggling? In less than a month, we’ve witnessed the survivors of a massive Maui fire stagger around Lahaina’s ruins in…
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If you want to get the plain truth, be not concerned with right and wrong. The conflict between right and wrong is the sickness of the mind.
The Way of Zen
Alan Watts
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'Letter to my Younger Self' - a third brief Royal Literary Fund talk
As a Royal Literary Fund Fellow based at The British Library in London (though working on-line for the most part), I was asked way back in May 2020 (feels like a different world) to write and record three brief talks. One of these was on ‘Writing and Technology’ which I posted (as text and audio file) on this blog a few months ago. Another commision was to be titled ‘How I Write’ – not an easy…
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Radio EarthRites Schedule for May 15th-May 21st
Alan Watts Week! Sunday, the 21st show features "The Joyous Cosmology" read by Watts. Amazing stuff.
The "Atmosphere's" Show features Steve Roach & Associates May 19th & 20th!
Blessings,
G
Gwyllm.Com/Radio-EarthRites
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«Vedi questo è il vero segreto della vita: essere completamente coinvolto con quello che stai facendo nel qui e ora. E invece di chiamarlo lavorare realizza che questo è giocare.»
(Alan W. Watts)
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"what if when we die we wake up?"
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