“I feel cut off only because I am split within myself, because I try to be divided from my own feelings and sensations. What I feel and sense therefore seems foreign to me. And on being aware of the unreality of this division, the universe does not seem foreign any more. For I am what I know; what I know is I. The sensation of a house across the street or of a star in outer space is no less I than an itch on the sole of my foot or an idea in my brain.” PhilosophyPeaceMindfulnessZenPresencePantheismAlan Watts Book:The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
“In the strictest sense, we cannot actually think about life and reality at all, because this would have to include thinking about thinking, thinking about thinking about thinking, and so ad infinitum. One can only attempt a rational, descriptive philosophy of the universe on the assumption that one is totally separate from it. But if you and your thoughts are part of this universe, you cannot stand outside them to describe them.” PhilosophyMindfulnessZen Book:The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
“When it comes down to it, government is simply an abandonment of responsibility on the assumption that there are people, other than ourselves, who really know how to manage things. But the government, run ostensibly for the good of the people, becomes a self-serving corporation. To keep things under control, it proliferates law of ever-increasing complexity and unintelligibility, and hinders productive work by demanding so much accounting on paper that the record of what has been done becomes more important than what has actually been done. [...] The Taoist moral is that people who mistrust themselves and one another are doomed.” PhilosophyGovernmentPoliticsDemocracyZenTaoKrishnaEsotericism Author:Alan W. Watts