Alan Watts on thinking

The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

It must be obvious… that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

This is the real secret of life⁠—to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle384–322 BC

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He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Confucius551–479 BC

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