In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

  • -- Alan Wilson Watts 艾伦·威尔逊·沃茨

在已知的历史上,没有人比美利坚合众国人民更有能力改变宇宙。没有人以如此咄咄逼人的方式去做这件事。

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Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts.

我们所做的一切都是为了改变意识。我们建立友谊是为了能够感受到某些特定的情感,比如爱,避免其他人,比如孤独。我们吃特定的食物是为了享受它们在我们舌头上短暂的存在。我们读书的乐趣在于思考别人的想法。

Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer.

有些陈述涉及动物的意识状态,他对自己作为一个内在生命是什么;其他人关心的是他最初的和习得的反应方式,他的行为,他是一个什么样的外部观察者。

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

摄影需要瞬间的时间,通过静止来改变生活。