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Robert E Lehman's avatar

I could easily while away the hours of my day reading your essays. Thank you for sharing your stories and words of wisdom.

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JdL's avatar

Very nice. I too derive great pleasure from hiking and from experiencing so many moments of delight unanticipated and all the more powerful for it. With a bit of care, that same feeling can spill over into the rest of life, even in mundane acts: they can become expressions of joy and creativity.

Alan Watts: seeing these excellent quotes reminds me that I should go back and read him again. The '60's were a time when this sort of wisdom was sought after; today for many, I think, the effort seems too great and any gains in wisdom seem largely pointless. And yet there is also a hunger; it's just that a sense of hopelessness in the face of the insane sweep of current events can drown it out. The message of Watts and other clear thinkers is that external events need not and should not dictate our mindset.

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