Alan Watts

“This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now.”

“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”

“Everything you experience is yourself.”

“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”

“Life is a dance, and when you are dancing you are not intent on getting somewhere.”

“The future is a concept. It doesn't exist.”

“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water.”

“You are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing.”

“The meaning of life is just to be alive.”

“It is not so obvious. People spend tremendous lives supposing that life must have a meaning.”

“To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important.”

“Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.”

“You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean.”

“You are not a stranger here.”

“Wherever you go, you encounter yourself.”

“The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other.”

“Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.”

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”