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Quote of Alan Watts: How is it possible that a...


Biography - Alan Watts:

British philosopher, writer and speaker.
Born: 1915 - Died: 1973
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
United Kingdom

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.



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Quotes for: eyes


To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.





It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.





Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.





What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.





Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.





The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is.











Quotes

Alan Watts also said...


Don't let words limit the possibilities of life.





The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.





A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.





You can't live at all, unless you can live fully now.





Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.





No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.












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