Alan Watts – The Way of Zen (1957)

"The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.

To seek a harmony by force is to invite its opposite.

But to let life happen, to trust in the natural rhythm of things,

is to understand that we are not apart from the flow, but part of it.

A person does not ‘come into’ this world;

they come out of it, like a wave from the ocean."

(One of Watts’ reflections on the Taoist principle that harmony cannot be imposed—it must be lived.)