Alan Watts

January 6, 2024

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

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

"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."

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

"The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless."

"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim, you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do, you will sink and drown. Instead, you relax and float."

"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone."

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

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

"The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love."

"We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own."

"The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there."

"The menu is not the meal."

"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 more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love."

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

"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."

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

"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim, you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do, you will sink and drown. Instead, you relax and float."

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

"The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless."

"We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own."

"The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there."

"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."

"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."

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

"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."

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

"The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless."

"We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own."

"The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there."

"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."

"I don't think about the past. I only think about the present and the future."

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

"I don't think about the past. I only think about the present and the future."

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