BRB, gotta go drink my brain octane oil, do my Buddhist chants, then quote philosophy at my Twitter followers.

Alan Watts didn’t take life seriously. That’s not to say he didn’t have reverence for it – quite the opposite. To Watts, the game was never about control, mastery, or decoding a grand hidden message.

What you seek is seeking you, O brother, you are a mere thought and what is left of you is some skin and bones. This is how the Sufi poet and scholar Jalal El-Din El-Rumi perceived the world. Born ...