Alan Watts famously said of psychedelics, “once you get the message, hang up the phone.” I took the opposite approach. I fucking haunted God. I called a hundred times a day, and when He didn’t answer I’d show up pounding on the door of His house in the middle of the night. I went around and around the cycle of grief: denial, anger, bargaining,... See more
See how every instant is entirely new, utterly unique. Everything is a surprise—each moment fresh, life never repeating itself.
John Astin