The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing. Alan Watts More Quotes by Alan Watts More Quotes From Alan Watts It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire? Alan Watts important desire The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests. Alan Watts hallucinations ego tests ...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences. Alan Watts share Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. Alan Watts technology hands people The Chinese word Li may therefore be understood as organic order, as distinct from mechanical or legal order, both of which go by the book. Li is the asymmetrical, nonrepetitive, and unregimented order which we find in the patterns of moving water, the form of trees and clouds, of frost crystals on the window, or the scattering of pebbles on beach sand. Alan Watts beach book moving One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is a parody of the sage who has transcended his ego. If one is paranoid, the other is metanoid. Alan Watts ego mind men The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now? Alan Watts realizing right-now should So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level. Alan Watts discord harmony levels Spiritual awakening is the difficult process whereby the increasing realisation that everything is as wrong as it can be flips suddenly into the realisation that everything is as right is it can be. Or better, everything is as It as it can be. Alan Watts flip awakening spiritual The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever. Alan Watts self games play When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, "I am all this!" There is simply all this. Alan Watts countryside running thinking The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination. Alan Watts imagination trouble thinking I too realize that the less I preach the more likely I am to be heard. Alan Watts too-real realizing heard As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything. Alan Watts space water people There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy. Alan Watts peculiar trying believe The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it. Alan Watts learning ignorance knowledge What is the next step, the practical application? —I will answer that the absolutely vital thing is to consolidate your understanding, to become capable of enjoyment, of living in the present, and of the discipline which this involves. Without this you have nothing to give. Alan Watts discipline understanding giving By going out of your mind, you come to your senses Alan Watts senses going-out mind Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. Alan Watts philosopher failing example And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords Alan Watts ignorant used hands
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