“ So now, can you allow your mind to be quiet? Isn’t it difficult? Because the mind seems to be like a monkey, jumping up and down and jabbering all the time. Once you’ve learned to think you can’t stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds’ busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence. When you’re alone nobody is saying anything, there’s nothing to do. There’s this worry. This lack of distraction. I’m left alone with myself and I wanna get away from myself. I’m always wanting to get away from myself that’s why I go to the movies, that’s why I read mystery stories, that’s why I go after the girls or anything that you do. Or get drunk or whatever. I don’t want to be with myself. I feel queer. So, well why do you wanna run away from yourself? What’s so bad about it? Why do you wanna forget this? Because you are addicted to thoughts. It’s a drug. And a dangerous one.”
— Alan Watts
