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Alan W Watts: The secret of...

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The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether is cowardly avoidance of a difficult job. For we have to learn the art of enjoying things BECAUSE they are impermanent.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Alan W Watts, (Jan 6 1915-1973), US philosopher; He was a proponent of Eastern philosophy and Western culture; wrote The Spirit of Zen, 1936.


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