A Chinese philosophical work called The Secret of the Golden Flower says that “when purpose has been used to achieve purposelessness, the thing has b… - Alan Watts

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A Chinese philosophical work called The Secret of the Golden Flower says that “when purpose has been used to achieve purposelessness, the thing has been grasped.

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Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was an English philosopher, writer, speaker, and expert in comparative religion.

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From another point of view, this moment is always here, since we know no other moment than the present moment. It is always dying, always becoming past more rapidly than imagination can conceive. Yet at the same time it is always being born, always new, emerging just as rapidly from that complete unknown which we call the future. Thinking about it almost makes you breathless.

Todo el humor es fudamentalmente malicioso, pero existe una clase muy elevada de humor que consiste en reirse de uno mismo. El humor real no es hacer bromas a expensa de los demas, sino que siempre es a expensas de uno mismo, y claro, cuenta con elemento de malicia.

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