"The Highest to which people can attain..." - Quote by Alan Watts
The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing higher can it give them, and nothing further should they seek for behind it; there is the limit.
More by Alan Watts
“What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call "here and now," and you are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing... The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around. The real deep-down you is the whole universe.”
“Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality.”
“You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!”
More on Wonder
“Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.”
“The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.”
“Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy. ... I am absolutely amazed to discover myself on this rock ball rotating around a spherical fire. It's a very odd situation. And the more I look at things I cannot get rid of the feeling that existence is quite weird.”