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Passasge on the Divided Mind:
As the Philospher tries to stand outside himself and his thoughts, so, as we have seen, the oridinary man tries to stand outside himself and his emotions and sensations, his feelings and desires. The result is a fantastic confusion and misdirection of conduct which discovery of the mind's unity must bring to an end.
By Alan Watts
anyone got any other great (philosphical) quotes?
There once was a man from nantuckett............ no wait, thats a diferent forum.:jointsmile:
??If a thing loves, it is infinite.? William Blake
"He who looks outside dreams, he who looks inside awakes." --- Carl Gustav Jung
All about discovery baby.
Alan Watts ah I love him so much I really want to buy his lectures that would make my day..I think I'm going buy it and uploaded a few of them if anyone is interested.
"is everything in the mind? is this forum a figment of the imagination? then this forum wouldnt exist and all the suroundings are just in the mind of a concious engery being, this qoute doesnt even matter, its all in my mind and only i will read it and nothing else matters" Alexico
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Originally Posted by Alexico
hmmm... my arguement to this is this.
If everything is in the mind and the imagination is in the mind, your conciousness would have no matter in the subject of whether this forum exists.
Or better yet, the I in You would lead to the seperation of Conciousness and Imagination therefore making Everything exponentially prudent. (increasingly more important).
then again. you could have wrote this. :wtf:
This and that and this and that and that and this, and this and that, and this and that and that and this.
Not why, not where, not who, definately not when, BUT
here, and now, and every where
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
-Buddha
I just used this quote in my latest work: good vibrations by ~eggrole on deviantART
I don't know if this quite qualifies, but I've always particularly liked this one:
Talking about Zen all the time is like looking for fish tracks in a dry river bed.
Can't remember who said that. Some ancient Chinese dude. Hui Neng maybe?
"Only a loving God would create a system where all life has to survive by killing and consuming other life."
- Unknown.
It is not those to inflict the most, but those who suffer the most that will conquer
"Into a soul completely devoid of thought and emotion, even the tiger cannot find room to insert its fierce claws."
~The beginning of a taoist poem found at the front of the Tao of Jeet Kune Do.
Be still like the moon in the reflection in the waves; ever rocking - paraphrased
~Bruce Lee