we have, as it were, had our noses in the guidebook for most of our lives, and have never looked at the view. Whitehead’s criticism of traditional ed… - Alan Watts

In the Garden of Eden Adam saw the animals before he named them: in the traditional system, children named the animals before they saw them.1

Ahora bien, si uno quiere vivir en una colina, lo que quiere es vivir en una colina y no destruirla para poder vivir en ella. [...] El mundo externo es la extensión de nuestro propio cuerpo. Un arquitecto inteligente y sensible siempre pregunta a la colina qué tipo de casa le gustaría que construyeran sobre ella.

Like a mighty army moves the Church of God.” But this is no way for a gentle-man.

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word water is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.