Thus when the line between myself and what happens to me is dissolved and there is no stronghold left for an ego even as a passive witness, I find my… - Alan Watts

it just happens, and all happenings are mutually interdependent in a way that seems unbelievably harmonious.

To the degree, then, that life is found good, death must be proportionately evil. The more we are able to love another person and to enjoy his company, the greater must be our grief at his death, or in separation.

[F]or wherever the negative force is in the ascendant it always contains, by implication, the seed of the positive.

I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time — a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution, where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment only to vanish forever. Under such conditioning it seems impossible and even absurd to realize that myself does not reside in the drop alone, but in the whole surge of energy which ranges from the galaxies to the nuclear fields in my body. At this level of existence “I” am immeasurably old; my forms are infinite and their comings and goings are simply the pulses or vibrations of a single and eternal flow of energy.