The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to be in t… - Alan Watts

Money alone cannot buy pleasure, though it can help. For enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy.

The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

One of the greatest ideas that has ever been produced is the Hindu idea that the world is a drama in which the central and supreme self behind all existence has gotten lost and has come to believe that it is not the one supreme self, but all the creatures that there are. It has come to believe in its own artistry. And the more involved, the more anxious, the more finite, the more limited the infinite manages to feel itself to be, the greater that artistry, the greater the depth of the illusion that it has created.