It is in vain that we can predict and control the course of events in the future, unless we know how to live in the present. It is in vain that docto… - Alan Watts

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

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

For while scientist and logician dissect and analyze, the mystic looks for meaning in the whole.

It must be obvious... that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

"Therefore, at about the age of twenty-one, I made to myself the solemn vow that I would never be an employee or put up with a "regular job." I have not always been able to fulfill this vow. I have had to work (in a reasonably independent manner) for the Church and for a graduate school, but since the age of forty-two I have been a free lance, a rolling stone, and a shaman..."