Jack

“Kindly let me help you or you will drown said the monkey putting the fish safely up a tree.”
― Alan W. Watts

“What we know by memory, we know only at secondhand.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

“Spinoza wrote the last indisputable Latin masterpiece, and one in which the refined conceptions of medieval philosophy are finally turned against themselves and destroyed entirely. He chose a single word from that language for his device: caute – ‘be cautious’ – inscribed beneath a rose, the symbol of secrecy. For, having chosen to write in a language that was so widely intelligible, he was compelled to hide what he had written.”
― Roger Scruton, Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction

“The way I touch
earth and heaven at once,
stretching from soil to sky.
The way the mat holds my feet
and my feet hold me.
The way it seems so simple,
something to be brushed off as
‘too easy,’
and the way it is actually
foundational.
The way I know
that when I am in it,
I am it—
unshakeable no matter what
winds blow or rains pour down.
It is as if I remain,
eternal,
undaunted,

majestic.

—mountain pose”
― Ashley Asti, Yoga Heartsongs