“When a person gives you advice, he sometimes says, ‘Well, now you must do it this way. Let’s consider the problem.’ And he talks about it and he may say, ‘Well, on the one hand, you see, but on the other hand.’ And in the end, he may say almost nothing. This is because advice is given to balance the mind, like you adjust a bicycle or a tightrope walker. If you find that the tightrope walker is leaning too far to the left, you shout, ‘Lean to the right!’ If he is leaning too far to the right, you shout, ‘Lean to the left!’ But the meaning of this advice is not that you should lean to the right all the time or to the left all the time but that you should keep moving from one to the other.”

— Alan Watts