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If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

Alan Watts
Happiness, Death, Future
Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.

Alan Watts
Death, Sexy, Mean
Alan W. Watts (2011). “Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal”, p.135, Vintage

When death comes, it's just like winter. We don't say, "There ought not to be winter." That the winter season, when the leaves fall and the snow comes, is some kind of defeat, something which we should hold out against. No. Winter is part of the natural course of events. No winter, no summer. No cold, no heat.

Alan Watts
Life, Death, Summer

To perceive that form reveals the void, and to see that the void reveals form, is the secret for the overcoming of death. To the extent that one is unaware of space, one is unaware of one's own eternity — it's the same thing!

Alan Watts
Death, Space, Secret
Alan Watts (2000). “What is Zen?”, p.81, New World Library

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