"The mark of an intelligent and educated man is one who does not really accept the idea of "work". That is to say; he does not accept the process of … - Alan Watts

"We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree."

it just happens, and all happenings are mutually interdependent in a way that seems unbelievably harmonious.

this is the last word of Western and Eastern wisdom alike. The Hindu Upanishads say: He who thinks that God is not comprehended, by him God is comprehended; but he who thinks that God is comprehended knows him not. God is unknown to those who know him, and is known to those who do not know him at all. Goethe says it in words which, to the modern mind, may be plainer: The highest to which man can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes him wonder, let him be content; nothing higher can it give him, and nothing further should he seek for behind it; here is the limit.