Discord on one level is harmony on another - Alan Watts

is in vain that doctors prolong life if we spend the extra time being anxious to live still longer.

No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.

"I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of "goo.