alanbwt on Nostr: “This is true of almost everything in the world, because we distinguish things from ...

“This is true of almost everything in the world, because we distinguish things from their background. We distinguish one side from another as we distinguish up from down. Now, imagine what would happen if we arranged everything in the set, or tried to arrange everything, so that nothing were down, everything had to be up. If we could really, in nature, separate the up from the down, why, we couldn't do it. Because up goes with down, is unintelligible apart from down, in the same way that the head side of a coin goes together with the tail side.”

— Alan Watts, Things and Thinks