Ananda Coomaraswamy once said that he would rather die ten years too early than ten minutes too late — too late, and too decrepit or drugged, to seiz… - Alan Watts

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Ananda Coomaraswamy once said that he would rather die ten years too early than ten minutes too late — too late, and too decrepit or drugged, to seize the opportunity to let oneself go, to “lay me down with a will.” “I pray,” he used to say, “that death will not come and catch me unannihilate” — that is, before I have let go of myself.