There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.
Alan Wilson Watts
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.
time memory names present expectation now
I owe my solitude to other people.
solitude people
poem
One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
psychology mindfulness
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
reality world universe
Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
self
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
self universe
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
harmony self universe
So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
self self-love
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
zen sex
We seldomrealize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions arenot actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and imageswhich we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society. Wecopy emotional reactions from our parents, learning from them thatexcrement is supposed to have a disgusting smell and that vomiting issupposed to be an unpleasant sensation. The dread of death is alsolearned from their anxieties about sickness and from their attitudes tofunerals and corpses. Our social environment has this power justbecause we do not exist apart from a society. Society is our extendedmind and body. Yet the very society from which the individual is inseparable is usingits whole irresistible force to persuade the individual that he is indeedseparate! Society as we now know it is therefore playing a game withself-contradictory rules.
society
People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
spiritual silliness
Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on.
life survival play alienation
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
technology universe oneness
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
time process
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