Ep. 10 – Veil of Thoughts: Money, Relationships & Desire
Alan Watts Being in the Way
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4.9 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2022
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Alan Watts explores the 'veil of thoughts' in money, civilization & progress; before shifting gears to the 'divine madness' of marriage & falling in love.
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“If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your life completely wasting your time. You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living; that is, to go on doing things you don’t like doing—which is stupid. Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.” – Alan Watts
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| 1:54.0 | And today we've got some special treats. |
| 1:56.3 | We've got some talks from the veil of thoughts about symbolism, about money, and the mistaking of symbols for |
| 2:04.0 | reality. We're going to start off with that and proceeding that with a little clip about what do you |
| 2:10.3 | desire. And then in the same seminar from the Ferry Boat Vallejo in the late 60s, my father |
| 2:17.3 | launched into a unique talk called Divine |
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