Part of man’s frustration is that he has become accustomed to expect language and thought to offer explanations which they cannot give. To want life … - Alan Watts

Part of man's frustration is that he has become accustomed to expect language and thought to offer explanations which they cannot give.

Part of man's frustration is that he has become accustomed to expect language and thought to offer explanations which they cannot give. To want life to be intelligible in this sense is to want it to be something other than life.

In an autobiography one must surely be allowed to boast, just for fun. I have, at a range of twenty feet, shot the tobacco out of a cigarette and left the paper intact. At a range of thirty feet, I have split a target, edge towards me, with an air pistol. I am also the world's champion in a game called "You Are the Target," in which anyone better than I would be dead. The game is to shoot an arrow straight up and see how near to you it can be allowed to land. You have to watch its fall very carefully, but I have had it hit the ground exactly between my feet. Of course, there were no witnesses. Had there been, they would forcefully have discouraged the experiment. I was using a fifty-five pound bow.

Kindly let me help you or you will drown said the monkey putting the fish safely up a tree.

My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.