"We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after youâ€™re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played."

-- Alan Watts

#Journey Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Musical Quotes

“Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.”
“When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?”
“What I mean is this: you meet someone, you think about them. You're already changing because of the way you think about them. You meet them again, you think about them some more, you're changing again. And on it goes. You are changing right now. Before my eyes.”
“People buy from people they know, like or trust”
“We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.”
“Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can't do anything because they are just stupid people.”
“No one can teach that which is inside another, each person must find it on his own and find a way to express it.”
“The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and moneyed incorporations and if this tendency continues it will be the end of freedom and democracy, the few will be ruling...I hope we shall...crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to trial and bid defiance to the laws of our country. I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.”

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