Emily

“We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be - the mythologized epitome of savage ruthless killer - which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourselves.”
― Jim and Jamie Dutcher

“There are, then, two ways of understanding an experience. The first is to compare it with the memories of other experiences, and so to name and define it. This is to interpret it in accordance with the dead and the past. The second is to be aware of it as it is, as when, in the intensity of joy, we forget past and future, let the present be all, and thus do not even stop to think, “I am happy.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

“You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.”
― Alan Watts

“a man does not really begin to be alive until he has lost himself, until he has released the anxious grasp which he normally holds upon his life, his property, his reputation and position.”
― Alan W. Watts, Become What You Are