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Do you believe in the evolution of human consciousness?
Sandi
Well, it's rare that I find myself being on the optimistic end of a discussion but having just glanced at the two responses on the home page--both feeling negatively, I am going to really savor... More »
Do you believe in the evolution of human consciousness?
C.G.
I believe it was Alan Watts that that suggested the reason behind the expanding universe was (paraphrased) that science (our tool of perception) was developing ever more powerful tools for peering into the farthest reaches,... More »
Buddhism, gender, and ideals vs. reality - and compassion
Silverpony
Buddhism is a tremendously varied religion. At one end, it's a pure philosophy of life; at the other, among the people who've practiced it as a religion for thousands of years in the streets of Southwest Asia, you... More »
When is competition valuable?
C.G.
Competition is sometimes useful as a bonding or social inspiration. But as fire is useful, there is a careful balance to be maintained or the useful can become the destroyer. Personally, I am more inclined... More »
"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth"
wrensis
This is a quote from Alan Watts, a philosopher, and the author of several of my must have on hand books. Most books I read and pass along, My favorite Alan Watts book is "The... More »
My yoga mat, synchronicity, and Alan Watts
Kaia
My friend, there is something I have found that means more to me than anything else in this world. Wait, I said that I have found. No, that's not right...... yoga found me. A producer... More »
Call to Depth: Part One
Julian
I am enamored of depth, for the sake of depth. Complexity, nuance and substance are beautiful, soulful in and of themselves. Depth also unfolds more meaning. Greater meaning as a layered tapestry not only of... More »
ELECTRIC UNIVERSE
sanmugan
How electricity switched on the modern world By David Bodanis Mr. Ampere, Mr. Volta, and Mr. Watt, are the central to this story of electricity and power, giving there names for the way it... More »
What are you still searching for?
Jon
I am a hairy smoking golfball which identifies with a sort of spheroid nucleus of me and which reaches out in all directions dendritically into everything which is not me and the resultant two-way transduction... More »
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible.
We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.
No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
