Culture Quote by Alan Watts Download Open image “We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time” — Alan Watts ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culture Illusion Illusion of time Time
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“In our daily schedule, we face copious of aggravation, frustration, and things that are beyond our control. It is not possible that we can… — mashasolodukha Copy Share Image
Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Time is an illusion we suffer from whenever we are not practicing mindfulness.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Time is a sphere made up of language, colours, smells, senses and sounds, a sphere in which you and the world coexist, an instrument… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“Time is ubiquitous to humanity and nature but its ephemeral experience within and among us is conceptualized through the lens of culture and langauge” — Oliver Harper Copy Share Image
In moments of transcendence, when time stands still, your biological clock will stop. The spirit is that domain of our awareness where there is… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
All of us experience a gap between our minds and the reality of time—that's why we suffer. — Dainin Katagiri Copy Share Image
A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks. — Alan Watts 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
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore. — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image
