To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, “To travel well is better than to arrive. - Alan Watts

To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead.

To travel well is better than to arrive.

For when you have really heard the sound of rain you can hear, and see and feel, everything else in the same way — as needing no translation, as being just that which it is, though it may be impossible to say what. I have tried for years, as a philosopher, but in words it comes out all wrong: in black and white with no color.

[T]he things which we criticize most readily in others are usually things of which we are least conscious in ourselves.

But in reality we cannot compare joy with sorrow. Comparison is possible only by the very rapid alternation of two states of mind, and you cannot switch back and forth between the genuine feelings of joy and sorrow as you can shift your eyes between a cat and a dog. Sorrow can only be compared with the memory of joy, which is not at all the same thing as joy itself.