Alan Watts wrote a wonderful book that, contrary to his design, I keep in my library. It is titled : The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are.I particularly enjoy this one paragraph:
Therefore The Book that I would like to slip to my children would itself be slippery. It would slip them into a new domain, not of ideas alone, but of experience and feeling. It would be a temporary medicine, not a diet; a point of departure, not a perpetual point of reference. They would read it and be done with it, for if it were well and clearly written they would not have to go back and do it again and again for hidden meanings or for clarification of obscure doctrines.
Ahhh, a breath of fresh air!
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