Thinking Bench

“Beatness is a quality of the world that turns some people nuts, or to stone, or warps them, and for all the suffering men go through, precious little is learned—so the Buddhist shot and Zen in particular—is not to do away with suffering (an impossibility—in summer we sweat, in winter we shiver—that’s all), but to make suffering flower into insight and beauty instead of dry you up and make you numb.”

—Gary Snyder, 1956

Photo (of Alan Watts, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and Timothy Leary) by Harold Adler

Bob Dylan // “And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns...that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn’t have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale...that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorient myself.” What’s your favorite quote?

Why does the summer go so fast?

I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.” - Mark Twain 🤯💭 Take a seat, take a breath, and let go of your worries. Remember, most of them will never come to pass anyway! You might as well try imagining the best case scenario.

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