Joined: 2 Mar 2016 Age: 35 Gender: Male Posts: 545 Location: Kentucky
12 Apr 2016, 9:03 am
_________________ “In the same way that you see a flower in a field, it’s really the whole field that is flowering, because the flower couldn’t exist in that particular place without the special surroundings of the field; you only find flowers in surroundings that will support them. So in the same way, you only find human beings on a planet of this kind, with an atmosphere of this kind, with a temperature of this kind- supplied by a convenient neighboring star. And so, as the flower is a flowering of the field, I feel myself as a personing- a manning- a peopling of the whole universe. –In other words, I, like everything else in the universe, seem to be a center… a sort of vortex, at which the whole energy of the universe realizes itself- comes alive… an aperture through which the whole universe is conscious of itself. In other words, I go with it as a center to a circumference.”~ Alan Watts
Joined: 9 Jan 2013 Gender: Male Posts: 12,948 Location: Queensland
13 Apr 2016, 6:57 am
^ Love that song. So sad.
_________________ It is easy to go down into Hell; Night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; But to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air – There's the rub, the task.