We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself. [Carl Sagan]  By JooJ - 3/29/2017 18:43

So in the same way as a muddy turbulent pool quiets itself when left alone, you have to know how to leave your mind alone, it will quiet itself. [Alan Watts]  By JooJ2 - 3/29/2017 18:37

Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything. [Alan Watts]  By JooJ2 - 3/29/2017 17:57

We do not 'come into' this world, we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. [Alan Watts]  By JooJ2 - 3/29/2017 17:57

I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything. [Alan Watts]  By JooJ2 - 3/29/2017 17:56

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. [Alan Watts]  By JooJ2 - 3/29/2017 17:55

Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified. [Alan Watts]  By JooJ2 - 3/29/2017 17:53

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle. [Alan Watts]  By JooJ2 - 3/29/2017 17:53

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless. [Alan Watts]  By JooJ2 - 3/29/2017 17:52

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. [Alan Watts]  By JooJ - 3/29/2017 17:49