"In looking out upon the world, we..." - Quote by Alan Watts

“Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use, it has a use - which may sound like a paradox, but is not. What, for instance, is the use of playing music? If you play to make money, to outdo some other artist, to be a person of culture, or to improve your mind, you are not really playing - for your mind is not on the music. You don't swing. When you come to think of it, playing or listening to music is a pure luxury, an addiction, a waste of valuable time and money for nothing more than making elaborate patterns of sound.”

“...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.”

“The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.”

“Cultivate virtue in the world, and it will be universal.”

“If you want to change the world, first change your heart.”

“There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.”

“What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable, and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing, and more caressing.”

“Without going outside, you may know the whole world!”

“Nothing is real.”