Winter Moose

“The problem is to appreciate differences in the basic premises of thought and in the very methods of thinking, and these are so often overlooked that our interpretations of Chinese philosophy are apt to be a projection of characteristically Western ideas into Chinese terminology.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

“She buried her ears into the calm of his heartbeat, and in a matter of seconds; fell terribly in love with the way her loneliness fell softly and suddenly, asleep, in his chest.”
― Christopher Poindexter

“Instant coffee, for example, is a well–deserved punishment for being in a hurry to reach the future.”
― Alan W. Watts, Does It Matter? Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality

“A mind that is single and sincere is not interested in being good, in conducting relations with other people so as to live up to a rule. Nor, on the other hand, is it interested in being free, in acting perversely just to prove its independence.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity