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Why Man Suffers
According to Alan Watts
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"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun." -- Alan Watts
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Allen Iverson SG 26 6'0'' 165 A- B+ B A- C- B
"You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing."
Ricky Davis SG 22 6'7'' 212 B+ B+ C C C- B
"The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves."
Michael Jordan SG 38 6'6'' 195 B+ A- A- A C B
"The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless."
Antoine Walker SF 25 6'9'' 245 B+ B B C+ B- B
"Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up… now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep."
Stephon Marbury PG 24 6'2'' 180 B B+ A- C+ C- B
"One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt."
Stromile Swift PF 21 6'10'' 240 B- D+ C+ C+ B- A
"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone."
Steve Francis PG 23 6'3'' 193 B- B+ B C+ C B
"This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play."
Alonzo Mourning C 31 6'10'' 266 A- C- C A- A- D
"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes."
Marcus Camby PF 27 6'11'' 240 B C- C A A- C
"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command."
Grant Hill SF 29 6'8'' 235 B+ A- B+ B- C+ C
"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float."
Chris Webber PF 28 6'10'' 250 A- C C A- B+ D
"To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is no escape."
Rashard Lewis SF 22 6'10'' 220 B A- C B- C A
"If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed"
Rasheed Wallace PF 27 6'11'' 235 B+ C C A B- A
"It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way."
Ray Allen SG 26 6'5'' 205 B- A B- B C- C
"You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself."
Jermaine O'Neal PF 23 6'11'' 241 A- D+ D- B B- A
"The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion."
Shaquille O'Neal C 29 7'1'' 320 A+ F+ C A+ A C
"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god."
Shawn Marion SF 23 6'7'' 230 B C+ C A B+ C
"If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you’ll 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."
Vince Carter SG 24 6'7'' 215 B+ A C+ B C B
"Life seems to be a system that eats itself to death, and in which victory equals defeat."
Lamar Odom SF 21 6'11'' 230 B+ B B B+ B- B
"The menu is not the meal."
Allan Houston SG 30 6'6'' 200 B A+ C+ C+ D+ B
"Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God’s sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves."
Jalen Rose SG 28 6'8'' 225 B B B+ B C B
"When you look out of your eyes, at nature happening out there, you’re looking at you. That’s the real you. The you that goes on of itself."
Dirk Nowitzki PF 23 7'0'' 260 B+ A- C- C+ B- A
"There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said."
Tim Duncan PF 25 7'0'' 275 A- C B A+ A B
"No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle."
Elton Brand PF 22 6'8'' 260 B+ C- C- B+ B+ B
"We notice only what we think noteworthy, and therefore our visions highly selective."
Mark Blount PF 25 7'0'' 230 B C C- B- C+ C
"Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know."
Gerald Wallace SF 19 6'8'' 220 B C- C B+ B- A
"You can only be on the in in relation to something that is out."
Paul Pierce SF 24 6'7'' 230 A- A- C C+ C+ B
"What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all."
Kobe Bryant SG 23 6'7'' 210 A- A- B A C A
"It’s like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash! And all that ink spread. And in the middle, it’s dense, isn’t it? And as it gets out on the edge, the little droplets get finer and finer and make more complicated patterns, see? So in the same way, there was a big bang at the beginning of things and it spread. And you and I, sitting here in this room, as complicated human beings, are way, way out on the fringe of that bang. We are the complicated little patterns on the end of it. Very interesting. But so we define ourselves as being only that. If you think that you are only inside your skin, you define yourself as one very complicated little curlique, way out on the edge of that explosion. Way out in space, and way out in time. Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you’re a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don’t feel that we’re still the big bang. But you are. Depends how you define yourself. You are actually–if this is the way things started, if there was a big bang in the beginning– you’re not something that’s a result of the big bang. You’re not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are. When I meet you, I see not just what you define yourself as–Mr so-and- so, Ms so-and-so, Mrs so-and-so–I see every one of you as the primordial energy of the universe coming on at me in this particular way. I know I’m that, too. But we’ve learned to define ourselves as separate from it."
According to Alan Watts
---
"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun." -- Alan Watts
---
Allen Iverson SG 26 6'0'' 165 A- B+ B A- C- B
"You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing."
Ricky Davis SG 22 6'7'' 212 B+ B+ C C C- B
"The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves."
Michael Jordan SG 38 6'6'' 195 B+ A- A- A C B
"The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless."
Antoine Walker SF 25 6'9'' 245 B+ B B C+ B- B
"Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up… now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep."
Stephon Marbury PG 24 6'2'' 180 B B+ A- C+ C- B
"One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt."
Stromile Swift PF 21 6'10'' 240 B- D+ C+ C+ B- A
"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone."
Steve Francis PG 23 6'3'' 193 B- B+ B C+ C B
"This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play."
Alonzo Mourning C 31 6'10'' 266 A- C- C A- A- D
"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes."
Marcus Camby PF 27 6'11'' 240 B C- C A A- C
"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command."
Grant Hill SF 29 6'8'' 235 B+ A- B+ B- C+ C
"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float."
Chris Webber PF 28 6'10'' 250 A- C C A- B+ D
"To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is no escape."
Rashard Lewis SF 22 6'10'' 220 B A- C B- C A
"If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed"
Rasheed Wallace PF 27 6'11'' 235 B+ C C A B- A
"It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way."
Ray Allen SG 26 6'5'' 205 B- A B- B C- C
"You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself."
Jermaine O'Neal PF 23 6'11'' 241 A- D+ D- B B- A
"The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion."
Shaquille O'Neal C 29 7'1'' 320 A+ F+ C A+ A C
"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god."
Shawn Marion SF 23 6'7'' 230 B C+ C A B+ C
"If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you’ll 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."
Vince Carter SG 24 6'7'' 215 B+ A C+ B C B
"Life seems to be a system that eats itself to death, and in which victory equals defeat."
Lamar Odom SF 21 6'11'' 230 B+ B B B+ B- B
"The menu is not the meal."
Allan Houston SG 30 6'6'' 200 B A+ C+ C+ D+ B
"Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God’s sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves."
Jalen Rose SG 28 6'8'' 225 B B B+ B C B
"When you look out of your eyes, at nature happening out there, you’re looking at you. That’s the real you. The you that goes on of itself."
Dirk Nowitzki PF 23 7'0'' 260 B+ A- C- C+ B- A
"There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said."
Tim Duncan PF 25 7'0'' 275 A- C B A+ A B
"No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle."
Elton Brand PF 22 6'8'' 260 B+ C- C- B+ B+ B
"We notice only what we think noteworthy, and therefore our visions highly selective."
Mark Blount PF 25 7'0'' 230 B C C- B- C+ C
"Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know."
Gerald Wallace SF 19 6'8'' 220 B C- C B+ B- A
"You can only be on the in in relation to something that is out."
Paul Pierce SF 24 6'7'' 230 A- A- C C+ C+ B
"What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all."
Kobe Bryant SG 23 6'7'' 210 A- A- B A C A
"It’s like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash! And all that ink spread. And in the middle, it’s dense, isn’t it? And as it gets out on the edge, the little droplets get finer and finer and make more complicated patterns, see? So in the same way, there was a big bang at the beginning of things and it spread. And you and I, sitting here in this room, as complicated human beings, are way, way out on the fringe of that bang. We are the complicated little patterns on the end of it. Very interesting. But so we define ourselves as being only that. If you think that you are only inside your skin, you define yourself as one very complicated little curlique, way out on the edge of that explosion. Way out in space, and way out in time. Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you’re a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don’t feel that we’re still the big bang. But you are. Depends how you define yourself. You are actually–if this is the way things started, if there was a big bang in the beginning– you’re not something that’s a result of the big bang. You’re not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are. When I meet you, I see not just what you define yourself as–Mr so-and- so, Ms so-and-so, Mrs so-and-so–I see every one of you as the primordial energy of the universe coming on at me in this particular way. I know I’m that, too. But we’ve learned to define ourselves as separate from it."
