Aksharareads

“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

“Belief clings, but faith lets go.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

“You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.”
― Alan W. Watts, Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

“what I wanted
was to be willing
to be afraid”
― Mary Oliver, Dream Work