This is It and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience Quotes

“If it is true that “when the wrong man uses the right means, the right means work in the wrong way,” it is often also true that when the right man uses the wrong means, the wrong means work in the right way.”
― Alan W. Watts, This Is It and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience

“No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.”
― Alan Watts, This Is It and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience