Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intellig… - Alan Watts

To “have” running water you must let go of it and let it run. The same is true of life and of God.

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.

"For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.
There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will
never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living
for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back
with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire
education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing
you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now."