For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tel… - Alan Watts

But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

[I]t is rather the past and the future which are the fleeting illusions, and the present which is eternally real. We discover that the linear succession of time is a convention of our single-track verbal thinking, of a consciousness which interprets the world by grasping little pieces of it, calling them things and events. But every such grasp of the mind excludes the rest of the world, so that this type of consciousness can get an approximate vision of the whole only through a series of grasps, one after the other.

Thus not to see the unity of self and other is the fear of life, and not to see the unity of being and nonbeing is the fear of death.

How shall we escape the heat?” — meaning, of course, the heat of suffering. He answered, “Go right into the middle of the fire.” “But how, then, shall we escape the scorching flame?” “No further pain will trouble you!