44 | 22.9.2011 | 8 months ago
“ When you realize that you live in, that indeed you are this moment now, and no other, that apart from this there is no past and no future, you must relax and taste to the full, whether it be pleasure or pain. At once it becomes obvious why the universe exists, why conscious beings have been produced, why sensitive organs, why space, time and change. The whole problem of justifying nature, of trying to make life mean something in terms of its future, disappears utterly. Obviously, it all exists for this moment. It is a dance, and when you are dancing you are not intent on getting somewhere. You go round and round, but not under the illusion that you are pursuing something, or fleeing from the jaws of hell…The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.
Alan Watts (via sol-psych)
Alan Watts (via sol-psych)
