“There is a sort of question in your mind, not so much a question as a questioning. A feeling of, it’s all unbelievable. It’s amazing. I wonder at it. I marvel at it. It is a miracle that there is anything. But it’s like a friend of mine who went to a Zen master, got an interview after he was in trouble, an interpreter, and he sat down and said, you know, now I’m here, I don’t know what to ask. I just feel like laughing. And the Zen master said, well let’s laugh. But that feeling, you see, of the the marvelousness of being, is what I call, or would want to mean by Tillich’s phrase ultimate concern.”
— Alan Watts, World as Play
