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noura_rizk 's review for:
The Book
by Alan Watts
"For there is not fate unless there is someone or something to be fated. There is no trap without someone to be caught. There is, indeed, no compulsion unless there is also freedom of choice, for the sensation of behaving involuntarily is known only by contrast with that of behaving voluntarily. Thus when the line between myself and what happens to me is dissolved and there is no stronghold
left for an ego even as a passive witness, I find myself not in a world but as a world which is neither compulsive nor capricious. What happens is neither automatic nor arbitrary: it just happens, and all happenings are mutually interdependent in a way that seems unbelievably harmonious.
Every this goes with every that. Without others there is no self, and
without somewhere else there is no here, so that—in this sense—self is
other and here is there."
Ok, I'll not claim that I got everything Watts was saying in this book because I didn't. Some points were a mind opener, I was like wow How couldn't I see this that way before, others were like what?!, what does he even mean by this, so I don't know if I can give an honest review here, I won't even rate it.
I might get back to it someday, because I feel like I need too..
left for an ego even as a passive witness, I find myself not in a world but as a world which is neither compulsive nor capricious. What happens is neither automatic nor arbitrary: it just happens, and all happenings are mutually interdependent in a way that seems unbelievably harmonious.
Every this goes with every that. Without others there is no self, and
without somewhere else there is no here, so that—in this sense—self is
other and here is there."
Ok, I'll not claim that I got everything Watts was saying in this book because I didn't. Some points were a mind opener, I was like wow How couldn't I see this that way before, others were like what?!, what does he even mean by this, so I don't know if I can give an honest review here, I won't even rate it.
I might get back to it someday, because I feel like I need too..