alanbwt on Nostr: “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have ...
“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.”
— William Shakespeare, As You Like It
— William Shakespeare, As You Like It
quoting note1eky…rzfr“In the West we have thought of God not only as a monarch but as the maker of the world. And as a result of that, we look upon the world as an artifact, a sort of machine, created by a great engineer. There’s a different conception in India where the world is not seen as an artifact but as a drama, and therefore God is not the maker and architect of the universe but the actor of it, and therefore is playing all the parts at once.”
— Alan Watts, Cosmic Drama