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thinking spirit sexist
I think the Bible is hugely patriarchal. There are so many sexist comments and homophobic comments and comments that are not in keeping with nurturing and loving the human spirit. Alanis Morissette
truth thinking hungry
I think everyone's hungry for the truth Alanis Morissette
travel home calling
My yearn for home is broadened Patriotism expanded By callings from beyond So I pack my things Nothing precious All things sacred Alanis Morissette
thinking order records
I listen to my records and I think, 'Wow, these are really great appetizers. I haven't even considered what I'm going to order for the full entree meal yet.' Alanis Morissette
teenager taken eye
Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously. Alanis Morissette
thinking creating integration
When we think of digitally disconnecting and inviting presence into our lives, we are creating the conditions of integration within and between. Alanis Morissette
thinking way gone
Life has a funny way of helping you out when you think that everything's gone wrong. Alanis Morissette
thinking deities vengeful
I think God is everything. Human beings created the punitive, vengeful deity who considers us to be innate sinners. Alanis Morissette
thinking support evolution
I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I'm here to support the human evolution. Alanis Morissette
telescopes lsd instruments
LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you. Alan Watts
thinking imagination trouble
The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination. Alan Watts
truth lying heart
Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent. Alan Watts
thinking feelings deceiving
Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once. Alan Watts
thinking government republic
How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy? Alan Watts
tree world this-world
We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. Alan Watts
thinking echoes self
It seems to be the special peculiarity of human beings that they reflect: they think about thinking and know that they know. This, like other feedback systems, may lead to vicious circles and confusions if improperly managed, but self-awareness makes human experience resonant. It imparts that simultaneous "echo" to all that we think and feel as the box of a violin reverberates with the sound of the strings. It gives depth and volume to what would otherwise be shallow and flat. Alan Watts
talking people realizing
People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.' Alan Watts
truth unity duality
Duality is always secretly unity. Alan Watts
thinking idols people
Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol... Alan Watts
two together division
Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together. Alan Watts
teacher real men
Just what should a young man or woman know to be 'in the know'? Is there, in other words, some inside information, some special taboo, some real lowdown on life and existence that most parents and teachers either don't know or won't tell? Alan Watts
time mind moments
this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana. Alan Watts
taught-us common-sense culture
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens. Alan Watts
two space risk
There are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs.First,use of these drugs may be dangerous.Howev er,every worth-while exploration is dangerous-climb ing mountains,testi ng aircraft,rocket ing into outer space,or collecting botanical specimens in jungles.But if you value knowledge & the actual delight of exploration more than mere duration of uneventful life,you are willing to take the risks. Alan Watts
trust-yourself mistrust paralyzed
If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed Alan Watts
trying world term
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. Alan Watts
trying world
But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. Alan Watts
thinking long listening
To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening. Alan Watts
telescopes
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. Alan Watts
thinking too-much persons
A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts Alan Watts
taken law land
But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies. Alan Watts
technology hands people
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. Alan Watts
together world letters
...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters. Alan Watts