“This has nothing to do with better or worse, progress or regress. These are judgments, and it is well said, ‘Judge not, that you be not judged; for with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged, and with what measure you measure, you shall be measured.’ And if you say, ‘But that is itself a judgment!’ you are still judging. Is it better not to judge? No, it is simply living and dying, day and night, coming and going, a state of affairs in which there is neither the good by itself nor the bad by itself.”

— Alan Watts, Does It Matter?