Alan Watts

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.

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 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.

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.

The menu is not the meal.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

I mean, I’m very, very competitive.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

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

Its a choice. You just have to decide that I’m not going to put my energy there. I’m going to decide to let this go. It’s your choice. You can embrace it, you can become a prisoner of bitterness and resentment anger and victim city, or you can just say ‘I’m going to live my life and be happy’.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

It’s not for me. I tried human flesh and it’s too salty for my taste.

A man always has two reasons for what he does-a good one, and the real one.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say

We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.