Alan Watts Quotes
"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.""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.""You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.""Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.""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.""The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.""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 more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.""The only zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the zen you bring up there.""We are the universe experiencing itself.""All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.""The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.""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 art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.""You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are""Faith is a state of openness or trust""To remain stable is to exist on the brink of collapse""To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet""Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun""You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here"