826 – “Things are as they are. Looking out into the Universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.”

–Alan Watts [Attributed]

307 – “We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”

–Alan Watts [See Source Note for context]

45 – “We do not ‘come into’ this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean ‘waves,’ the universe ‘peoples.’ Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature: a unique action of the total universe. This fact is rarely, if ever, experienced by most individuals.”

– Alan Watts