Body Quote by Alan Watts Download Open image “A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.” — Alan Watts ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Body Clock Culture Rhythm
“A particularly significant example of brain against body, or measures against matter, is urban man’s total slavery to clocks. A clock is a convenient… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The way we metabolize our experience of time influences our biological clock. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
It is easier to wiggle the toes than reset the biological clock, but that is just a belief that is rooted in superstition. If… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“The phase of an individual’s body clock in relationship to a zeitgeber is a biological phenomenon and not a matter of discipline.” — Till Roenneberg Copy Share Image
A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time. — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
“What’s wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
People used to think that biological clocks were not only mysterious, they were seen almost as miracles. This is no longer the case. — Jeffrey C. Hall Copy Share Image
as all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping. — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
“the clock is not merely a means of keeping track of the hours, but of synchronising the actions of men” — David Landes Copy Share Image
Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“The self-conscious feedback mechanism of the cortex allows us the hallucination that we are two souls in one body -a rational soul and an… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clutch water in… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“As you make more and more powerful microscopic instruments, the universe has to get smaller and smaller in order to escape the investigation. Just… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls. — Rosalind Wiseman Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the whole body. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body. — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image