Life and death are not two opposed forces; they are simply two ways of looking at the same force, for the movement of change is as much the builder a… - Alan Watts

To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.

Life and death are not two opposed forces; they are simply two ways of looking at the same force, for the movement of change is as much the builder as the destroyer.

To practice with an end in view is to have one eye on the practice and the other on the end, which is lack of concentration, lack of sincerity.

Death is the unknown in which all of us lived before birth.

In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas, and words are “coins” for real things. They are not those things, and though they represent them, there are many ways in which they do not correspond at all. As with money and wealth, so with thoughts and things: ideas and words are more or less fixed, whereas real things change.