We learn nothing of very much importance when it can be explained entirely in terms of past experience. If it were possible to understand all things … - Alan Watts

We do not dance to reach a certain point on the floor, but simply to dance. Energy itself, as William Blake said, is eternal delight — and all life is to be lived in the spirit of rapt absorption in an arabesque of rhythms.

[W]hen I leave the Church and the city behind and go out under the sky, when I am with the birds, [...] with the clouds, [...] and with the oceans, [...] I cannot feel Christianity because I am in a world which grows from within. I am simply incapable of feeling its life as coming from above[.] More exactly, I cannot feel that its life comes from Another, from one who is qualitatively and spiritually external to all that lives and grows. On the contrary, I feel this whole world to be moved from the inside, and from an inside so deep that it is my inside as well, more truly I than my surface consciousness.

There is only this now. It does not come from anywhere; it is not going anywhere. It is not permanent, but it is not impermanent. Though moving, it is always still. When we try to catch it, it seems to run away, and yet it is always here and there is no escape from it.