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.

"There is another story of a Chinese sage who was asked, "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!" We do not need to go as far as China. The same idea comes in The Divine Comedy, where Dante and Virgin find that the way out of Hell lies at its very center."

For the perishability and changefulness of the world is part and parcel of its liveliness and loveliness.

living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which put things in at one end and let them out at the other, which both keeps them doing it and in the long run wears them out. So to keep the farce going, the tubes find ways of making new tubes, which also put things in at one end and let them out at the other.