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Waiting For The Moon
Once agriculture came about, certain portions of the population quit working directly on/with the land. Towns came into being, as did monarchies. Add to this the invention and worship of sky gods who are above and beyond nature and you end up with a humanity who has lost touch with what is essential.
— Morgan Carraway
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I am neither a preacher nor a reformer, for I like to write and talk about this way of seeing things as one sings in the bathtub or splashes in the sea. There is no mission, nor intent to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substitutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us — not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelmingly uncanny fact of mere existence. Not for one moment do I believe that such an awakening would deprive us of energy or social concern. On the contrary, half the delight of it — though infinity has no halves — is to share it with others, and this means the sharing of life and things as well as insight.
~Alan Watts
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