Chess Fiends and Addicts

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• A person who thinks all the time
  Has nothing to think about except thoughts
  So, he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions
  By thoughts I mean specifically, chatter in the skull
  Perpetual and compulsive repetition of words, of reckoning and calculating
  I'm not saying that thinking is bad
  Like everything else, it's useful in moderation
  A good servant, but a bad master
  And all so-called civilized peoples
  Have increasingly become crazy and self-destructive
  Because through excessive thinking they have lost touch with reality
  That's to say we confuse signs with the real world

  This is the beginning of meditation

  Most of us would have rather money than tangible wealth
  And a great occasion is somehow spoiled for us unless photographed
  And to read about it the next day in the newspaper
  Is oddly more fun for us than the original event
  This is a disaster
  For as a result of confusing the real world of nature with mere signs
  We are destroying nature
  We are so tied up in our minds that we've lost our senses
  Time to wake up
  What is reality?
  Obviously, no one can say
  Because it isn't words
  It isn't material, that's just an idea
  Reality is

  The point cannot be explained in words

  I'm not trying to put you down
  It's an expression of you as you are
  One must live
  We need to survive, to go on
  We must go on

• -Alen Watts (philosopher&writer)

• (06-01-1915/16-11-1973)

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