Alan Watts quotes
This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.