c/alan-watts
The largest collection of talks by Alan Watts — the British-American philosopher who made Eastern wisdom accessible through witty and profound teachings.
…your heart on mortal beauty, but you set your heart on spiritual values that are imperishable. Even that supposed Tipler and rake Omar Khayyam says that the worldly hope men set their hearts upon turns ashes or it prospers and an on like snow upon the…
…you started all this, oh thou who didst with beset the world, the path I was to wander in you know that thing, Omar Khayyam, blaming fundamentally the lord. It's nice to have someone to pass it right back to. Of course in the fully automatic model…
…it prospers and like snow upon the desert's dusty Face lighting a little hour or two is gone. You know all that, Omar Khayyam jazz, you know the cloud capped towers the gorgeous palaces the great globe itself I all which it inherits shall dissolve and…
…your heart on mortal beauty, but you set your heart on spiritual values that are imperishable. Even that supposed Tipler and rake Omar Khayyam, says that the worldly hope men set their hearts upon turns ashes or it prospers, and an arm like snow upon the…
…smooth. There I want it to bulge. And in this sense there is a kind of parallel between painting and life. You know as Omar Khayyam says, the moving finger writes and having writ moves on. Not all thy piety nor wit can lure it back to cancel half a…
…beautiful imagery of cloud capped towers and gorgeous palaces and solemn temples, and from the illusion itself he weaves his spell. Omar Khayyam, which is today Fitzgerald's Omar Khayyam is a bit corny to ears trained to modern poetry, but to the Victorian…
…towers and gorgeous palaces and solemn temples, and from the illusion itself he weaves his spell. Omar Khayyam, which is today Fitzgerald's Omar Khayyam is a bit corny to ears trained to modern poetry, but to the Victorian Ear it had the same magic the…
…you for something to come it never teaches you how to live. Now, you know that the poem called the rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam which is not really Omar but Fitzgerald It's an extremely free translation, but it carries the theme that we call carpe Diem:…
…it for you. Actually this poem is really mistranslated. You should read the translation by Winfield, which is quite a different matter. Omar Khayyam was a Sufi, that is to say an Islamic Mystic, and the sufis had to keep quiet about their doctrine. The…
…all forms, is a theme to which parrots constantly resort. One of the most popular poems in the world is the rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the whole theme of it is transience. The earthly hope men set their hearts upon turns to ashes or it prospers, and…