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Letter "A" » Alan Watts Quotes
«Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.»
«To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.»
«We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.»
«No work for love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.»
«No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.»
«How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.»
Author: Alan Watts
(Interpreter, Thinker, Writer)
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arabesque, enchanted, instruments, jewels, musical, musical instrument, musical instruments, nerves, sensitive
«Saints need sinners.»
«We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.»
Author: Alan Watts
(Interpreter, Thinker, Writer)
| Keywords:
conceptions, concert, concerts, courteous, fascination, fascinations, in concert, meditation, somewhat, suspend, suspending, symbolic, symbols, verbal
«Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.»
Author: Alan Watts
(Interpreter, Thinker, Writer)
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Technology
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destructive, one and the same, technology
«But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.»
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