#alan watts

[askyea-poesy]

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Alan Watts

[entheognosis]

[thecalminside]

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

-Alan Watts

[nobeerreviews]

Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.

-- Alan Watts

(Roma)

[389]

"Imagine a multidimensional spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image." –Alan Watts

[quietlotus]

“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

[perfectfeelings]

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

[funeral]

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

[thoughtkick]

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

[resqectable]

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Alan Watts

[psykopaths]

Solaris, (1972)

Dir - Andrei Tarkovsky

[askyea-poesy]

There is a price to be paid for every increase in consciousness. We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Alan Watts

[entheognosis]

[thecalminside]

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

-Alan Watts

[nobeerreviews]

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

(Riomaggiore, Italy)