Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was an English writer, speaker and self-styled "philosophical entertainer", known for interpreting and popularising Japanese, Chinese and Indian traditions of Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sddCXVvoGd0 [...] so long as you are trying to make progress, you will go up. But… Continue lendo “Stop Chasing What You Think Will Make You Happy: Secrets of Solitude” – Alan WATTS
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“Only burgeois suckers put hope in the future” – Alan WATTS
The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that. R. RORTY, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_tG7aOe4tk There are three classes of people in… Continue lendo “Only burgeois suckers put hope in the future” – Alan WATTS