Under these circumstances, the life that we live is a contradiction and a conflict. Because consciousness must involve both pleasure and pain, to str… - Alan Watts

that the more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.

The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.

For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.

There is simply experience. There is not something or someone experiencing experience! You do not feel feelings, think thoughts, or sense sensations any more than you hear hearing, see sight, or smell smelling. “I feel fine” means that a fine feeling is present. It does not mean that there is one thing called an “I” and another separate thing called a feeling, so that when you bring them together this “I” feels the fine feeling.

There are situations when one owes solitude to other people, if only not to bother them. But, more than this, the multitude needs solitaries as it needs postmen, doctors, and fishermen