"You might love the sound of running water that you hear in a stream passing through somebody's garden. And you think, "Oh yes, I'd love to have that water in my own garden." And you arrive there with a bucket, and you pick the water up, and you take it away. But having caught the water in the bucket, it's dead; it's no longer living running water."
-Alan Watts, "Buddha and Buddhism" from "Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life"
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