How to Achieve Perfection | Alan Watts

Now, this seminar this weekend concerns a subject which is so alien from anything that we understand in the west that it may stretch your skulls a little. I don't know. Because, of course, integration means that you get the two aspects of yourself together and acknowledge them both as you the conscious of the unconscious, the power of the ego, and the power of the natural organism of the psyche. And so, in every art, one realizes there comes a point where your will is exhausted. You've tried everything to make something work and it won't work. And then to achieve the perfection of the art, something has to happen of itself, which we variously call grace, inspiration, or tariqi. And the problem that everybody's always wanted to know is how to make that happen happen.