Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or masteryโin morals, in art or in spiritualityโthe more you see that you are playing a rarified and lofty form of the old ego-game, and that your attainment of any height is apparent to yourself and to others only by contrast with someone else's depth or failure.
Alan WattsTo feel that life is meaningless unless โIโ can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.
Alan WattsYou're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe...
Alan Watts