Golden Columbine Wildflower In The Santa Catalina Mountains — Image by kenne
“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own.
For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
Tumacácori National Historical Park — Images by kenne (Click On Any Image To See Slide Show.)
– Alan Watts
Doubtful Pass Signposts – Image by kenne
Tucson Winter Sunset — Photo-Artistry by kenne
— Alan Watts
— James Baldwin
Holiday Season On The Patio — Photo-Artistry by kenne
— Alan Watts
Rose Canyon Lake On Mt. Lemmon — Image by kenne
“But I’ll tell you what hermits realize.
If you go off into a far, far forest
and get very quiet,
you’ll come to understand that
you’re connected with everything.”
– Alan Watts
Balanced Rock, Catalina Highway, Santa Catalina Mountains — Image by kenne
— Alan Watts
“No Title” — Abstract Art by kenne
— Alan Watts
Butterfly (Two-tailed Butterfly) and Flower (Mexican Bird of Paradise) Photo-Artistry by kenne
The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.
Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course.
You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord,
and if the meaning of things were simply in ends,
composers would write nothing but finales.
Red Rock Canyon Panoramas by kenne
If you ask me to show you God,
I will point to the sun, or a tree, or a worm.
But if you say,
“You mean, then, that God is the sun, the tree,
the worm, and all other things?” —
I shall have to say that you have missed the point entirely.
— Alan Watts
Sneezeweed & Ferns On Mt. Lemmon — Image by kenne
— Alan Watts
(First Posted July 11, 2008)
The Water Flows
It’s hard for me to believe that it was six weeks ago
when I ordered the materials and began the preliminary
preparation for a fountain in our backyard.
There are many reasons why so long,
not the least of which was the delayed delivery of
the fountain pedestal, which finally can in yesterday.
By working with nature, you can look into your own nature.
“The secret of life is enjoying
the passage of time
Any fool can do it”
kenne
Images by kenne
“Everybody is ‘you’. Everybody is ‘I’. That’s our name. We all share that.”
— Alan Watts
House Wren — Grunge Art by kenne
— Alan W. Watts
“Rock Climber” (Ornate Tree Lizard) — Image by kenne
“Here, then, is the genesis of two of the most important historical premises of Western science.
The first is that there is a law of nature, an order of things and events awaiting our discovery,
and that this order can be formulated in thought, that is, in words or in some type of notation.
The second is that the law of nature is universal . . .”
— Alan Watts
Flame Skimmer — Grunge Art by kenne
“So long as the sense of the observing subject remains,
there is the effort, however indirect, to control feeling from the outside,
which is resistance setting up turmoil in the stream.
Resistance disappears and the balancing process comes into full effect,
not by intention on the part of the subject,
but only as it is seen that the feeling of being the subject,
the ego, is itself part of the stream of experience
and does not stand outside it in a controlling position.”
— Alan Watts
Becoming is Superior to Being 