"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the Gods made for fun."
More from Alan Watts.
"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone."
"You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself."
"Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know."
"A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily."
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Instead of music all day, I've started listening to podcasts and lectures, etc. There's a lot of Alan Watts on YouTube and I'm taking advantage of it. He's fascinating and entertaining, and while a couple of his ideas have seemed pretty "out there" in my frame of reference, I'm no less intrigued and want to listen more. 