Christy

“It is open to all of us in so far as "the mastery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." It is given to many to be seers, but few to be prophets. Many can listen to music, but few can perform and compose.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

“Nevertheless, the physical reality is that my body exists only in relation to this universe, and in fact I am as attached to it and dependent on it as a leaf on a tree. I feel cut off only because I am split within myself, because I try to be divided from my own feelings and sensations. What I feel and sense therefore seems foreign to me. And on being aware of the unreality of this division, the universe does not seem foreign any more.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

“Tools such as these, as well as the tools of language and thought, are of real use to men only if they are awake -- not lost in the dreamland of past and future, but in the closest touch with that point of experience where reality can alone be discovered: this moment.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

“Deep down I knew perfectly well that it doesn’t much matter whether you die at thirty or at seventy, since in either case other men and women will naturally go on living—and for thousands of years. In fact, nothing could be clearer. Whether it was now or twenty years from now, I would still be the one dying.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger