"We are all lunatics trying to stick pins into their own points, and it is thus that our frantic efforts to set the world to rights, and to extend our control over all happenings, inner and outer, are themselves the cause of most of our troubles. All force is tension against the stream.
Everywhere there are now people absorbed in projects to change the world or to change themselves, and they will simply perpetuate, or merely change the form, of the very troubles they intend to avoid. This is not to say that human life and conduct is inevitably a tragic mess. It is to say that human life--and all life--does not work harmoniously when we try to force it to be other than what it is.
Alan Watts, Cloud-Hidden: Whereabouts Unknown, A Mountain Journal.
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