To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam. It is the same with thinking, which is really silent talking. It is not, by itself, open to the discovery of anything new, for its only novelties are simply arrangements of old words and ideas.
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Alan W. Watts
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Does It Matter?
Nature, Man and Woman
Psychotherapy East and West
Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation
Tao: The Watercourse Way
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
The Essential Alan Watts
The Way of Zen
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
What Is Zen?
Zen and the Beat Way
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To notice is to select, toregard some bits of perception, or some features of the world, as morenoteworthy, more significant, than others. To these we attend, and therest we ignore__or which reason conscious attention is at the same time ignorance despite the fact that it gives us a vividlyclear picture of whatever we choose to notice.
There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.