#alan watts

[kamala-laxman]

There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering." 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)

[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

[entheognosis]

[thecalminside]

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

-Alan Watts

[resqectable]

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

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

[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

[psykopaths]

Solaris, (1972)

Dir - Andrei Tarkovsky

[dandelionsandcacti]

[mountain-sage]

... 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."

~ Alan Watts

Become What You Are

[nobeerreviews]

The sound of the rain needs no translation.

-- Alan Watts

(Roma)

[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

[entheognosis]

[thecalminside]

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

-Alan Watts