We see God every time we open our eyes; we inhale Him at every breath; we use His strength in every movement of our finger; we think Him in every tho… - Alan Watts

There is no greater freedom than the freedom to be what you are now.

If I first see a tree in the winter, I might assume that it is not a fruit-tree. But when I return in the summer to find it covered with plums, I must exclaim, 'Excuse me! You were a fruit-tree after all.' Imagine, then, that a billion years ago some beings from another part of the galaxy made a tour through the solar system in their flying saucer and found no life. They would dismiss it as 'Just a bunch of old rocks!' But if they returned today, they would have to apologize: 'Well - you were peopling rocks after all!' You may, of course, argue that there is no analogy between the two situations. The fruit-tree was at one time a seed inside a plum, but the earth - much less the solar system or the galaxy - was never a seed inside a person. But, oddly enough, you would be wrong.

It is quite another thing to see that you are your “fate,” and that there is no one either to master it or to be mastered, to rule or to surrender.