"most of us are willing to put up with lives that consist largely in doing jobs that are a bore, earning the means to seek relief from the tedium by intervals of hectic and expensive pleasure. these intervals are supposed to be the real living, the real purpose served by the necessary evil of work. or we imagine that the justification of such work is the rearing of a family to go on doing the same kind of thing, in order to rear another family... and so ad infinitum. this is no caricature. it is the simple reality of millions of lives, so commonplace that we need hardly dwell upon the details, save to note the anxiety and frustration of those who put up with it, not knowing what else to do." -alan watts
"what is god doing? what is the meaning of god? why does he create the universe? what is the content of the love of god for his creation? well there's the frank answer of the hindus that the godhead manifests the world because of leela.. which is the sanskrit word for 'play.' when it is likewise said in the scriptures that the lordgod created the world for his pleasure, this again means--in a sense--for play. ...and it was dante in the paradiso who described the song of the angels as the laughter of the universe. this sense of nonsense as the theme of the divine activity--that all these... this strange world.. with its weird forms.. stones, and trees, and water, and clouds and stars... they are just plain improbable. ...and it is participation in this essential glorious nonsense that is at the heart of the world." -alan watts(1/6/15-11/16/73)