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Alan Watts on chasing love, happiness and money
One of Alan Watts mind fucks…
Do you talk too much?
Some people just talk too god damn much and they hardly ever say anything. They are so scared and afraid of silence, because when it’s quiet they have to listen to their internal bullshit and deal with it They also don’t know that talking interrupts your natural way of breathing and last but not least…
When a song is born in your heart you have to sing it
When you are tremendously alone and happy and joyous and celebrating, and great energy goes on storing in you. You don’t need anybody. In that moment the energy is so much, you would like it to be shared. Then you give, you give because you have so much, you give without asking anything in return…
In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud
The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud — the obstacles of life and its suffering. … The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter…
Jungle of superstition and idol-worship
That’s what the world is today! “The majority of men have not yet acquired the maturity to be independent, to be rational, to be objective. They need myths and idols to endure the fact that man is all by himself, that there is no authority which gives meaning to life except man himself. Man represses…
The system is broken by design
This system (corporation) was built to profit at the expense of the people. Avoiding this fact is just placing the responsibility to deal with this situation on your children and future generations while the system and its offspring continue to grow. There is no omnipotent savior or benevolent race of alien bretheren coming to save…
It’s not about being happy
However small, however hidden it might be, you gotta keep that thing burning! People say it’s all about the journey not the destination, but i think it’s more like about recognizing those little moments when you feel the desire that summons life through you that matter the most because a journey can be just a…
The journey toward being whole
As teenagers and young adults, we learned that self-knowledge counts for little on the road to workplace success. What counts is the “objective” knowledge that empowers us to manipulate the world. Ethics, taught in this context, becomes one more arm’s-length study of great thinkers and their thoughts, one more exercise in data collection that fails…
How are you selfish?
The injunction to be unselfish refers only to one sense of self. I certainly know what it’s like to be preoccupied and uncaring, yet i am also conscious of a deep desire to treat others feelings as my own. Each of us is selfish in the sense that we are always doing what some part…