There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to "get c… - Alan Watts

The answer to the problem of suffering is not away from the problem but in it. The inevitability of pain will not be met by deadening sensitivity but by increasing it, by exploring and feeling out the manner in which the natural organism itself wants to react and which its innate wisdom has provided.

[T]he natural universe is not a linear system. It involves an infinitude of variables interacting simultaneously, so that it would take incalculable aeons to translate even one moment of its operation into linear, alphabetic language.

Like words, memories never really succeed in “catching” reality.