"When we attempt to exercise power or..." - Quote by Alan Watts
When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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“Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.”
“Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?”
“And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is.”
More on Power
“When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.”
“Each state claims the right to control interests foreign to itself when those interests are such that it can control them without putting its own interests in danger. ... other powers only recognize this right of intervening in proportion as the country doing it has the power to do it.”
“Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!”
More on Control
“Jews have always controlled the business... The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada...is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind.”
“We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.”
“Stillness is the ruler of haste.”