Alan Watts

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.

Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up… now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

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

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 an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

The menu is not the meal.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

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

Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what’s going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Are people more violently opposed to fur rather than leather because its much easier to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs?

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out.

Once you discover that you can, then you must.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.

Sometimes you have to make the right decision, and sometimes you have to make the decision right.