“When
a cat falls out of a tree, it lets go of itself. The cat becomes
completely relaxed, and lands lightly on the ground. But if a cat were
about to fall out of a tree and suddenly make up its mind that it didn’t
want to fall, it would become tense and rigid, and would be just a bag
of broken bones upon landing. In the same way, it is the philosophy of
the Tao that we are all falling off a tree, at every moment of our
lives. As a matter of fact, the moment we were born we were kicked off a
precipice and we are falling, and there is nothing that can stop it. So
instead of living in a state of chronic tension, and clinging to all
sorts of things that are actually falling with us, because the whole
world is impermanent, be like a cat.”
— Alan Watts
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