But dispelling this dread isn’t a matter of trying to forget about washing dishes, it is realizing that in actual fact you only have one dish to wash… - Alan Watts

Todo el humor es fudamentalmente malicioso, pero existe una clase muy elevada de humor que consiste en reirse de uno mismo. El humor real no es hacer bromas a expensa de los demas, sino que siempre es a expensas de uno mismo, y claro, cuenta con elemento de malicia.

No one wants to be loved out of a sense of duty.

Man as an organism is to the world outside like a whirlpool is to a river: man and world are a single natural process, but we are behaving as if we were invaders and plunderers in a foreign territory. For when the individual is defined and felt as the separate personality or ego, he remains unaware that his actual body is a dancing pattern of energy that simply does not happen by itself. It happens only in concert with myriads of other patterns — called animals, plants, insects, bacteria, minerals, liquids, and gases. The definition of a person and the normal feeling of “I” do not effectively include these relationships. You say, “I came into this world.” You didn’t; you came out of it, as a branch from a tree.