"When your eyes are functioning well you don't……" — Alan Watts
"When your eyes are functioning well you don't see your eyes. If your eyes are imperfect you see spots in front of them. That means there are some lesions in the retina or wherever, and because your eyes aren't working properly, you feel them. In the same way, you don't hear your ears. If you have a ringing in your ears it means there's something wrong with your ears. Therefore, if you do feel yourself, there must be something wrong with you. Whatever you have, the sensation of I is like spots in front of your eyes - it means something's wrong with your functioning."
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347 Quotes by Alan Watts
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Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
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I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears.
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Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone…
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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch…
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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves…
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I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
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