“To return to the analogy of the mirror: no one has ever seen the true nature, or colour, of a mirror. A mirror is only present to our eyes by reason of what it reflects, whether light or darkness, white or black, shape or colour. But we are nonetheless aware that there is a mirror transcending and underlying the reflections.”
— Alan Watts, Behold the Spirit 
“Egoism is like trying to swim without relying on the water”
— Alan Watts, Behold the Spirit 
He who does not read lives one life. He who does read lives a thousand lives. 
Have a blessed Sunday. 
“at certain stages of his development and at certain levels of his nature man can only grasp spiritual reality in terms of mythos.
But when the time comes for him to understand the naked reality behind the symbol, the symbol itself appears confusing and unessential.
When, however, the inner reality is seen, the symbol again appears logical and meaningful although its function changes.”
— Alan Watts, Behold the Spirit 
“The vast majority of human beings have always had very concrete and childlike minds, and there are levels at which even the most highly intelligent people are still children.
To get an abstract, universal or spiritual truth into the understanding of a child one must make it concrete, and the best way to do so is to illustrate it with a story.
Because God intends the gift of union and its realization for all men, and not merely for an esoteric elite, he therefore embodies the gift in a story, a mythos, which is acted out in real life”
— Alan Watts, Behold the Spirit 
“Eternity is not unending time; it is an indestructible present, for Christ did not say, ‘Before Abraham was, I was,’ but, ‘Before Abraham was, I am.’”
— Alan Watts, Behold the Spirit 
“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me”
— Meister Eckhart, Sermons 
In Bitcoiner parlance, this is known as the path of maximum pain, which is also the path of maximum learning.
In Bitcoiner parlance, this is known as the path of maximum pain, which is also the path of maximum learning. nostr:note13332494zya05va4v7dssqa0upcj66m9f3cprrqrr44x2qd9dd9zsnzw09v
Bitcoin goes down until you think it will keep going down. Then it goes up.
Bitcoin goes up until you think it will keep going up. Then it goes down.
Rinse and repeat. 
“Therefore any book about Zen is rather like a mystery story with the last chapter missing”
— Alan Watts, The Spirit of Zen 
“The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge.”
— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 
“Man is characterized by a hunger for the infinite, for an eternity of life, love and joy which, whether he knows it or not, can be nothing other than God.”
— Alan Watts, Behold The Spirit 