Tuesday thoughts with Mr. Watts

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When you want to destroy someone, you always define them as unpeople.
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Thursday throughts with ... Mr. Watts

Love 

You cannot be oneself-conscious on purpose. U can’t be designedly spontaneous. You cannot be genuinely loving by intending to love. Either you love someone or you don’t. If you pretend to love a person, you deceive them and you build up reasons for resentment. But you say “but I ought to be honest”. Well, that is the beginning of so many lies you can’t imagine. Like when I hear a lot said about love. The “big love thing” on the way. Everyone has got to love everyone. And they sing songs about love. You know what I do? I buy a gun and bar my door. Because I know there is a storm of hypocrisy brewing.

Wednesday thoughts with Mr. Watts

Today I was listening to one of #AlanWatts lessons on #youtube and came across this passage (in a slightly different context) that, in my humble opinion, applies to what we are going through today in this world: 

“(…) to you, as members of a world which is running into the most intense difficulty:

A world be set by a complex of problems, anyone of which would be bad enough, but when you add together all the great political, social and ecological problems with which we are faced - they are appalling. 

And one naturally says - the reason why we are in such a mess, isn’t not simply that we have wrong systems for doing things. Weather they be technological, political or religious. But we have the wrong people. The systems may be alright, but they are in the wrong hands because we are all in various ways, self-seeking, lacking in wisdom, lacking in courage, afraid of death, afraid of pain. Unwilling really to cooperate with others. Unwilling to be open to others. And we all think that’s too bad.”

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