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All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.  I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory.  I was naïve.  I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.  It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with:  that I am nobody but myself.  ~Ralph Ellison, “Battle Royal”

personal wisdom + teacher wisdom

To learn wisdom from others has been necessary and helpful in my personal journey of understanding myself. Over time, that wisdom has given me the confidence to trust myself in knowing that the answers also come from within. I’m still learning more about who I am everyday with the help of wisdom from others, and now, more than ever, myself. I’ve found that each new nugget of wisdom I am gifted from a teacher is able to further fuel me along a deeper path of personal understanding.

Alan Watts is one of my new teachers

I just watched a bunch of youtube clips from Alan Watts, wow. I even sent a note to his son, Mark Watts, who controls his estate now, to let him know how helpful his father’s words have been to me. I look forward to his response. Most notably I watched the tv program he recorded in 1971,  called “A Conversation with Myself.” It’s a 4 part series.

Don’t know who Alan Watts is? Neither did I up until a couple hours ago. He was a British philosopher who is credited with bringing much of the Eastern philosophical knowledge to the West. He wrote many books on Buddhism, Zen, and understanding of self.

Conversation with Myself video in full

When you’re in a patient, introspective mood I encourage you to give it a watch. It’s wonderful and helped me understand the bigger picture of the world of nature vs. the world of man.

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