“And then when God wagged his finger at the serpent, the serpent didn’t say anything, because the serpent knew the answers. He knew the thing which must not be admitted, that the left hand goes with the right hand, that black goes with white, and that you wouldn’t know what white was unless you knew what black was, and that you wouldn’t know what is was unless you knew what isn’t is, and you wouldn’t know what here is unless you knew what there is, and you wouldn’t know what you meant by self unless you knew what was meant by other. And that is so simple, but everybody contrives to ignore it.”
— Alan Watts, Spiritual Alchemy
