What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.
Alan WattsMake a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.
Alan WattsThe power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.
Alan WattsThe Chinese word Li may therefore be understood as organic order, as distinct from mechanical or legal order, both of which go by the book. Li is the asymmetrical, nonrepetitive, and unregimented order which we find in the patterns of moving water, the form of trees and clouds, of frost crystals on the window, or the scattering of pebbles on beach sand.
Alan Watts