Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
Alan WattsReally, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.
Alan WattsThe real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.
Alan WattsParadoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.
Alan Watts