Walks Through Walls

“How many of us now realize that space is the same thing as mind, or consciousness? That when you look out into infinity you are looking at yourself? That your inside goes with your entire outside as your front with your back? That this galaxy, and all other galaxies, are just as much you as your heart or your brain? That your coming and going, your waking and sleeping, your birth and your death, are exactly the same kind of rhythmic phenomena as the stars and their surrounding darkness? To be afraid of life is to be afraid of yourself.”
― Alan W. Watts, Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown

“Real freedom cannot exist alongside false freedom, but the abandonment of false freedom looks as if it would leave you as good as dead. But this is the secret of Goethe’s Stirb und werde, “Die and come to life.” For the job of compassion in a sick society only the dead need apply.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown

“My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown

“Thus not to see the unity of self and other is the fear of life, and not to see the unity of being and nonbeing is the fear of death.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown