hermits and outcasts/alan watts

special thanks to all those who traded seeds for hemp bracelets during the bartering experiment: www.youtube.com if you have something you would like to trrade for a hemp bracelet let me know. enis lets the lady eat. www.alanwatts.com While many in the 60’s played the stock market and paid their mortgages, Alan Watts lived aboard a colorful houseboat, writing, speaking, and inspiring a generation to re-assess their values. For more than forty years, Alan Watts earned a reputation as a foremost interpreter of Eastern philosophies for the West. Beginning at age sixteen, when he wrote essay for the journal of the Buddhist Lodge in London, he developed an audience of millions who were enriched through his books, tape recordings, radio, television, and public lectures. In all, Watts wrote more than twenty-five books and recorded hundreds of lectures and seminars, all building toward a personal philosophy that he shared in complete candor and joy with his readers and listeners throughout the world. His overall works have presented a model of individuality and self-expression that can be matched by few philosophers. His life and work reflects an astonishing adventure: he was an editor, Anglican priest, graduate dean, broadcaster, author, lecturer, and entertainer. He had fascinations for archery, calligraphy, cooking, chanting, and dancing, and still was completely comfortable hiking alone in the wilderness. He held a Master’s Degree in Theology from Sudbury-Western Theological

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This is a quote from Albert Einstein’s book, “Out of My Later Years.” I think it sums up my own outlook on humanity. Here’s the text of the entire quote: A human being is part of a whole, called by us “universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few …

Einstein Quote #1

This is a quote from Albert Einstein’s book, “Out of My Later Years.” I think it sums up my own outlook on humanity. Here’s the text of the entire quote: A human being is part of a whole, called by us “universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few …

Best Quotes of All Time

The best quotes from people such as Terence Mckenna Albert Einstein Abe Lincoln Jimi Hendrix Mohandas Gandhi CJ Keyser Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Franklin Giordano Bruno Arthur Schopenhauer and More! Song is “Force of Nature” by Nujabes Many of these pictures were taken by me.