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**Tony Cartledge** @tonycart@mastodon.social · 3h

Tony Cartledge @tonycart@mastodon.social

THE PICTURE OF THE WORLD
INTHE MOST SOPHISTICATED
PHYSICS OF TODAY,
IS NOT FORMED STUFF,
POTTED CLAY,
BUT PATTERN
~ A SELP-DESIGNING PATIERN -
A DANGE AND, OUR COMMON SENSE,
AS INDIVIDUALS,
HASN'T YET CAUGHT UP WITH THIS.
Alan Watts
(Image: a spiral shell on sand)

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**Tony Cartledge** @tonycart@mastodon.social · 2d

Tony Cartledge @tonycart@mastodon.social

At the deep center of a time perpendicular to ordinary time
we are, and always have been, one.
Alan Watts -
The Joyous Cosmology

(Image: person sitting in a pool b/w with slightly distorted perspective)

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**Tony Cartledge** @tonycart@mastodon.social · 3d

Tony Cartledge @tonycart@mastodon.social

Why do we love nonsense?
It is this participation
in the essential glorious nonsense
that is at the heart of the world,
that isn't going anywhere,
that is a dance.
It seems that only in moments
of unusual insight and illumination
that we get the point of this,
and find that the true meaning of life
is no meaning, that its purpose
is no purpose, and that its sense
is nonsense.

ALAN WATTS

(Image: dancer in front of rising sun)

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**Tony Cartledge** @tonycart@mastodon.social · 4d

Tony Cartledge @tonycart@mastodon.social

If there is no nirvana
which can be attained,
and if, in reality,
there are no
individual entities,
it will follow that...
to seek nirvana
is the folly of looking
for what one has never lost.
Alan Watts
The Way of Zen
Vintage Books Edition
August 1989
(Image: orange Buddha statue)

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**Tony Cartledge** @tonycart@mastodon.social · 5d

Tony Cartledge @tonycart@mastodon.social

The configuration of my nervous system,
like the configuration of the stars,
happens of itself,
and this 'itself' is the real 'myself.'

Alan Watts
(Image: starry nebula)

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**Tony Cartledge** @tonycart@mastodon.social · 6d

Tony Cartledge @tonycart@mastodon.social

MUDDY WATER
IS BEST CLEARED BY
LEAVING IT ALONE

ALAN WATTS
(Image: stones in a river)

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**Tony Cartledge** @tonycart@mastodon.social · Mar 8

Mar 8

Tony Cartledge @tonycart@mastodon.social

We have somehow conned ourselves
into the notion that this moment
is ordinary.
Alan Watts
(Image: Dali-esque spiral clock)

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**Tony Cartledge** @tonycart@mastodon.social · Mar 7

Mar 7

Tony Cartledge @tonycart@mastodon.social

When we look
for things
there is nothing
but mind,
and when we look
for mind
there is nothing
but things.
Alan Watts
(Image: crescent moon)

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**Tony Cartledge** @tonycart@mastodon.social · Mar 6

Mar 6

Tony Cartledge @tonycart@mastodon.social

The more I go into myself, the more I am not myself, and yet this is the very heart of me. Alan Watts
(Image: night sky over a lake)

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**Tony Cartledge** @tonycart@mastodon.social · Mar 5

Mar 5

Tony Cartledge @tonycart@mastodon.social

THE DESIRE FOR SECURITY
AND THE FEAR OF INSECURITY
ARE THE SAME THING.
TO HOLD YOUR BRE ATH IS
TO LOSEYOUR BREATH.
A SOCIETY BASED ON THE
QUEST FOR SECURITY IS
NOTHING BUT A BREATH-
RETENTION CONTEST IN
WHICH EVERYONE IS AS
TAUT AS A DRUM AND AS
PURPLE AS' A BEET.
Alan Watts
(Image: b/w photo of AW)

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**Einzelgänger** @einzelganger@mastodon.social · Mar 5

Mar 5

Einzelgänger @einzelganger@mastodon.social

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can't slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

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**Tony Cartledge** @tonycart@mastodon.social · Mar 4

Mar 4

Tony Cartledge @tonycart@mastodon.social

People can't be talked out
of illusions. If a person
believes that the earth is
flat, you can't talk him
out of that, he knows
that it's flat. He'll go
down to the window and
see that its obvious, it
looks flat. So the only
way to convince him that
it isn't is to say, "Well
let's go and find the
edge".
- Alan Watts

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**Tony Cartledge** @tonycart@mastodon.social · Mar 3

Mar 3

Tony Cartledge @tonycart@mastodon.social

We do not need a new religion
or a new bible.
We need a new experience --
a new feeling
of what it is to be "I."
Alan Watts
(Image: full moon over water)

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**Tony Cartledge** @tonycart@mastodon.social · Mar 2

Mar 2

Tony Cartledge @tonycart@mastodon.social

... the Ultimate Ground of Being is you.
Not, of course, the everyday you
which the Ground is assuming,
or “pretending” to be,
but that inmost Self
which escapes inspection
because it's always the inspector.
This, then, is taboo of taboos:
you're it!
Alan Watts
(Image: dew drop on a blade of grass)

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**Tony Cartledge** @tonycart@mastodon.social · Mar 1

Mar 1

Tony Cartledge @tonycart@mastodon.social

The Universe is the game of the Self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.
Alan Watts
(Image: a crescent moon on a starry background)

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**Tony Cartledge** @tonycart@mastodon.social · Feb 28

Feb 28

Tony Cartledge @tonycart@mastodon.social

For unless one is able to live
fully in the present, the
future is a hoax. There is no
point whatsoever in making
plans for a future which you
will never be able to enjoy.
When your plans mature,
you will still be living for
some other future beyond.
You will never, never be
able to sit back
with full contentment and
say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your
entire education has
deprived you of this
capacity because it was i
preparing you for the future,
instead of showing you how
to be alive now.
Alan Watts
(Image: b/w photo of AW)

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**Tony Cartledge** @tonycart@mastodon.social · Feb 27

Feb 27

Tony Cartledge @tonycart@mastodon.social

If you awaken from the illusion .and understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death and death implies life, you can conceive yourself. Not conceive but feel yourself, not as a stranger in the world, not as someone here on sufferance, on probation, not as something that has arrived
here by fluke, but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely - fundamental.
Alan Watts
(Image: forest and night sky)

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**Tony Cartledge** @tonycart@mastodon.social · Feb 26

Feb 26

Tony Cartledge @tonycart@mastodon.social

The meaning of freedom cam never be grasped by the divided mind. If I feel separate from my experience, and from the world, freedom will seem t be the extent to which I can push the world around, and fate the extent to which the
world pushes me around. But to the whole mind there is no contrast of “I” and the world. There. is just one process acting, and it does everything that happens
Alan Watts
(Image: ocean at twilight)

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**Tony Cartledge** @tonycart@mastodon.social · Feb 25

Feb 25

Tony Cartledge @tonycart@mastodon.social

Where does my fist go when I open my hand?
Allan Watts
(Image: colour photo of AW)

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**Bodhi O'Shea** @Bodhioshea@kolektiva.social · Feb 25

Feb 25

Bodhi O'Shea @Bodhioshea@kolektiva.social

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