It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odd — uncanny and highly improbable. G. K.… - Alan Watts

It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odd — uncanny and highly improbable.

But peace can be made only by those who are peaceful, and love can be shown only by those who love. No work of love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

[T]he part and the whole, the individual and the cosmos, are what they are only in relation to one another.

we do not discover the wisdom of our feelings because we do not let them complete their work; we try to suppress them or discharge them in premature action, not realizing that they are a process of creation which, like birth, begins as a pain and turns into a child.