Two Wheels Good
Lo Zen e l'Arte della Manutenzione della Motocicletta di Steve McQueen
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2012-04-22
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2012-03-05
Your Senses Must Be Razor-Sharp
In order to write at a high level of competence you need a comprehensive vocabulary, a keen sense of overall structure, and an inner beat or cadence. Your senses must be razor-sharp. Alcohol blunts those senses even as it releases self-restraint. Therefore many writers feel they are getting down to the real story after a belt or two, little realizing they are damaging their ability to tell the real story.
RITA MAE BROWN
Fonte: beatwritersbane
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“What is the essential difference between the world of nature and the world of man?”
And for those who have never heard Alan, here is a clip of a 1971 television recording with Alan Watts walking in the mountains and talking about the limitations of technology and the problem of trying to keep track of an infinite universe with a single tracked mind. Video posted by Alan’s son and courtesy of alanwatts.com.
Nature is wiggly, everything wiggles, the outlines of the hills, the shapes of the tress, the way the wind brushes the grass, the clouds, tracks of streams. It all wiggles. And for some reason or other we find wiggly things very difficult to keep track. And you know, we say to people, ‘keep still so that I can see you, keep still for the camera. And we say, “well let’s get things straightened out, let’s get this ironed out, let’s get it all squared away.” And then somehow we think we understand things, when we have translated them into terms of straight lines and squares. Maybe that’s why they call rather rigid people squares. But it doesn’t fit nature. You know wherever human beings have been around and done their thing, you’ll find rectangles; we live in boxes. Our streets - especially across states like Kansas and Nebraska - are laid out in a grid pattern … why they even dropped a grid pattern on top of San Francisco, with all those hills, so that cars run away. Because it seems that the human being really has a very simple kind of mind. And all this wiggliness is too complicated. | Alan Watts
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Millions of years ago you were a big bang. Now you are a complicated human being.
-Alan Watts
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Fonte: faulken
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2012-03-04
Fonte: luissssluis
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For a long time we have been accustomed to the compartmentalization of religion and science as if they were two quite different and basically unrelated ways of seeing the world. I do not believe that this state of doublethink can last. It must eventually be replaced by a view of the world which is neither religious nor scientific but simply our view of the world. More exactly, it must become a view of the world in which the reports of science and religion are as concordant as those of the eyes and the ears.
— From “The joyous cosmology” by Alan Watts (via diveintoyourmind)
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Fonte: instinctivepath
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2012-03-03
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
— Alan Watts (via dexters-lab)
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Alan Watts on Nothingness
“By seeing that nothingness is the fundamental reality, and you see it’s your reality. Then how can anything contaminate you? All the idea of you being scared, and put out and worried, and so on, this is nothing, it’s a dream. Because you’re really nothing. But this is most incredible nothing.”
Absolutely beautiful. Bone chilling. Terrifying. Haunting. Inspiring. Comforting. Nothing - All in one. This inspires me to want to travel and see the world.
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Maxime Precourt designed these minimalist posters for the first three Indiana Jones films—Raiders, Temple of Doom, and Last Crusade. You can buy them for $15.60 each at Society6.com.
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