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Alan Watts Quotes

"You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.""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.""Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.""The meaning of life is just to be alive. It ""We do not come into this world; we come out""The meaning of life is just to be alive. It ""The art of living… is neither careless drift""Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.""The world is filled with love-play, from top""To have faith is to trust yourself to the wa""Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.""Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.""A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.""The only zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the zen you bring up there.""The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.""We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.""The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.""We are the universe experiencing itself.""Your body is not a thing, it is a process.""But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything."
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