Douglas

“Alice: How long is forever?
White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.”
― Lewis Carroll

“[I]t would seem that to be incapable of sitting and watching with the mind completely at rest is to be incapable of experiencing the world in which we live to the full. For one does not know the world simply in thinking about it and doing about it. One must first experience it more directly, and prolong the experience without jumping to conclusions.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

“I have been vehemently accused by people who didn’t understand me of not believing in anything. I don’t believe in anything. This is not a statement of existential hopelessness for which you should light a candle for me at night. It’s a strategy for not getting bogged down in some weird trip. After all, what is the basis for believing anything? I mean, you have to understand: You’re a monkey. In some kind of a biological situation where everything has been evolved to serve the economy of survival—this is not a philosophy course. So belief is a curious reaction to the present at hand. It isn’t to be believed, it’s to be dealt with—experienced and modeled.”
― Terence McKenna

“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so,” wrote Shakespeare. For example:”
― Robert Holden, Shift Happens!: How to Live an Inspired Life...Starting Right Now!