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«The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.»
Author: Alan Watts
(Interpreter, Thinker, Writer)
| Keywords:
join, make sense, move, plunge, plunged, plunges, plunging
«Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.»
Author: Alan Watts
(Interpreter, Thinker, Writer)
| Keywords:
arranged, arranges, badly, comparisons, constellation, constellations, right and wrong
«Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.»
Author: Alan Watts
(Interpreter, Thinker, Writer)
| About:
Zen
| Keywords:
confuse, peel, peeled, peeling, peels, peel of, potatoes, spirituality, Zen
«I owe my solitude to other people.»
«Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.»
«The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.»
«I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.»
Author: Alan Watts
(Interpreter, Thinker, Writer)
| About:
Illusion,
Time
| Keywords:
illusions, realized
«We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.»
Author: Alan Watts
(Interpreter, Thinker, Writer)
| About:
Buddhism,
Meditation,
Zen
| Keywords:
aiming, almost all, arrive, arrived, arrive at, composition, dance floor, fastest, floor, immediate, meditation, obviously, players, The Discovery, unlike
«Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.»
«Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.»
Author: Alan Watts
(Interpreter, Thinker, Writer)
| About:
Life,
Meaning,
Philosophy,
Universe,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
fundamental, go together, secrets
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