You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. - Alan Watts

you want to know what reality is, you must look directly at it and see for yourself. But this needs a certain kind of concentration, because reality is not symbols, it is not words and thoughts, it is not reflections and fantasies. Therefore to see it clearly, your mind must be free from wandering words and from the floating fantasies of

The death of the individual is not disconnection but simply withdrawal. The corpse is like a footprint or an echo — the dissolving trace of something which the Self has ceased to do.

You may think there’s no point in singing unless you are good at it, but that is like saying there is no point in doing anything at all unless you are particularly gifted at it, which is ridiculous.