34 ordspråk av Alan Watts
Alan Watts
Alan Watts föddes den 6 januari 1915 och dog den 16 november 1973 - of Zen Buddhism.
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 Saints need sinners. |
| Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. |
| Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. |
| The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. |
| The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clutch water in ones hands. The harder we grip, the more it slips through our fingers. |
| The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. |
| The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. |
| The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present. |
| The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it. |
| Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. |
| Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after. |
| 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. |
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