Alan Watts Quotes About Birth
-
Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.
→ -
What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of view? It's using up air; it's using up energy. It's really not doing anything except being ornamental. And yet here's this whole vegetable world, cactus plants, trees, roses, tulips, and edible vegetables, like cabbages, celery, lettuce - they're all doing this dance.
→ -
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
→ -
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
→ -
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
→ -
There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity of the universe and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do.
→
Related Authors
-
Eckhart Tolle Author -
Ram Dass Teacher -
D.T. Suzuki Author -
Ken Wilber Writer -
Terence McKenna Philosopher -
Joseph Campbell Writer -
Robert Anton Wilson Author -
Jean Burden Poet -
Timothy Leary Psychologist -
Monica Furlong Author -
-
Gautama Buddha Founding Figure -
Sam Harris Author -
Carl Jung Psychiatrist -
Adyashanti Writer -
Jiddu Krishnamurti Writer -
Seraphim Rose Author -
Deepak Chopra Author -
Nhat Hanh Monk