Alan Watts [1915-1973]
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple...everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves. - Watts
The first rector that I remember from childhood was a quiet man who had been a missionary. He was fluent in Japanese from his time serving in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai [the Japanese Anglican church] and had an impressive military record from the Second World War, before he was ordained. He was remarkable in that he chose to serve the Japanese people during …