“Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.”
― Alan Watts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Watts
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"The only way to handle danger is to face it." - Alan Watts, from a lecture in 1958.
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Joies simples et communes
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« [Les] êtres humains se sentent contraints d’amasser... le plus de conscience, de vivacité, et d’insomnie chronique possible afin d’être sûrs de ne pas rater la moindre sensation de plaisir. Aussi deviennent-ils incapables de jouir d’un plaisir réel, et finissent-ils par devenir insensibles aux joies les plus subtiles de la vie qui sont en fait simples et communes. »
– Alan Watts, Bienheureuse insécurité, Stock, 1981
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Hollywood could make a fascinating historical biopic around the life of #AlanWatts.
I hope they never do.
The False Idea of Who You Are - Alan Watts
https://youtu.be/4yaBJVfyy00
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Une feuille suit le fil de l'eau
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« Notre expérience de la vie ne connaît ni trêve ni retour en arrière et nous la vivons vraiment que dans la mesure où nous la suivons comme l'esprit suit la musique ou comme une feuille suit le fil de l'eau. »
– Alan Watts, dans Nancy Wilson Ross, Le monde du Zen : Anthologie du Bouddhisme Zen, Stock, 1976, p. 124
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@ksclarke this is a great article thanks for sharing.
It reminds me of a saying by #alanwatts that almost became a mantra for me as i was clawing my way out of depression: "you are not your idea of yourself"
"Through our eyes the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears the universe is hearing harmonies..."
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For there is never anything but the #present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere
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The #bud has opened and the fresh leaves fan out and curve back with a gesture which is unmistakably communicative
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"The biggest ego trick is getting rid of your ego, and the joke is it doesnt exist." Me paraphrasing #AlanWatts from memory.
#Nature is really formless, in the sense that it is one form. Naming a cloud a cloud does not separate the cloud from the sky. Just as when you pick up water into a sieve, you don't succeed in separating the water into strips
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