"The
meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and
so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it
were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves"
- Alan Watts
“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all.
Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild.
So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you.
And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”