Nothing fails like successโbecause the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.
Alan WattsIt takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.
Alan WattsIn life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates.
Alan WattsThe police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children and little old ladies find their way home. As long as the police confine themselves to such activities they are respected friends of the public. But as soon as they begin inquiring into people's private morals, they become nothing more than armed clergymen.
Alan Watts