Princess Donut

“How long have the planets been circling the sun? Are they getting anywhere, and do they go faster and faster in order to arrive? How often has the spring returned to the earth? Does it come faster and fancier every year, to be sure to be better than last spring, and to hurry on its way to the spring that shall out-spring all springs?”
― Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

“But in reality we cannot compare joy with sorrow. Comparison is possible only by the very rapid alternation of two states of mind, and you cannot switch back and forth between the genuine feelings of joy and sorrow as you can shift your eyes between a cat and a dog. Sorrow can only be compared with the memory of joy, which is not at all the same thing as joy itself.”
― Alan W. Watts, Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

“life requires no future to complete itself nor explanation to justify itself. In this moment it is finished.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

“And if time is not real, then the gap which seems to be between the world and the eternity, between suffering and blissfulness, between evil and good, is also a deception.” “How”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha