Alan Watts Quotes
"Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.""The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.""The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.""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.""If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.""When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.""A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.""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.""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.""Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."
