This is the inevitable disadvantage of studying Asian philosophy by the purely literary methods of Western scholarship, for words can be communicativ… - Alan Watts

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Actually, the world is not complex. It is the task of trying to figure it out with words or numbers which is complex.

Clocks should not be smashed; they should simply be kept in their place. And they are very much out of place when we try to adapt our biological rhythms of eating, sleeping, evacuation, working, and relaxing to their uniform circular rotation

Human beings appear to be happy just so long as they have a future to which they can look forward — whether it be a “good time” tomorrow or an everlasting life beyond the grave.