Alan Watts - "LOVE YOURSELF AS THE UNIVERSE" - There's Always a Gap, Always a Beat ..
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Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British-born philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Pursuing a career, he attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he received a master's degree in theology. Watts became an Episcopal priest in 1945, then left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies. Watts gained a large following in the San Francisco Bay Area while working as a volunteer programmer at KPFA, a Pacifica Radio station in Berkeley. Watts wrote more than 25 books and articles on subjects important to Eastern and Western religion, introducing the then-burgeoning youth culture to The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), Watts proposed that Buddhism could be thought of as a form of psychotherapy and not a religion. He also explored human consciousness, in the essay "The New Alchemy" (1958), and in the book The Joyous Cosmology (1962). Towards the end of his life, he divided his time between a houseboat in Sausalito and a cabin on Mount Tamalpais. His legacy has been kept alive by his son, Mark Watts, and many of his recorded talks and lectures are available on the Internet. According to the critic Erik Davis, his "writings and recorded talks still shimmer with a profound and galvanizing lucidity."
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"...heaven only knows whats happened in the name of Jesus..."
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IF YOU TAKE 3 SHITS AND TAKE 1 AWAY THERE ARE ONLY 2 LEFT , VERY VERY INTERESTING. JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU STUPID ATHEIST DRUNK HIPPIE!
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slowly coming together like pieces of a puzzle yess
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A lot of what he says still has relevance today. I'm a fan of things that are timeless.
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I think guilt should only be a part of our life if it turns us on.
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you may also like Eckhart Tolle and Nithyanda
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Beep Boop:)
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thanks very much x
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you can hear his cocktail glass clinking around
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Alan Watts, ladies and gentlemen.
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very balanced conclusion to the tree question. no side got the best of the other. just like sound can be seen as being both a particle and a wave. cluck cluck cluck chick!
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