Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior. - Alan Watts

We must repeat: memory, thought, language, and logic are essential to human life. They are one half of sanity. But a person, a society, which is only half sane is insane. To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words — to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.

This is why all the great Asian philosophies begin with the practice of concentration, that is, of attentive looking. It is as if to say, ‘‘If you want to know what reality is, you must look directly at it and see for yourself. But this needs a certain kind of concentration, because reality is not symbols, it is not words and thoughts, it is not reflections and fantasies. Therefore to see it clearly, your mind must be free from wandering words and from the floating fantasies of memory.

В действительности же, нет возможности отделить себя от мира, любви к себе от любви к кому-то другому. Любое знание о себе является знанием о другом, а любое знание другого — знанием о себе. — начинаю видеть, что “я” и другой, знакомое и незнакомое, внутреннее и внешнее, предсказуемое и непредсказуемое — подразумевают друг друга.