Alan Watts

"Life is the only way to get to know about it."

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

"The bigger your self becomes, the smaller the world."

"You are it. You are the Self that is the ground of the entire universe."

"The mystery is not something hidden away but something we're in the very middle of."

"You're not something that happens in the universe; the universe is something that happens in you."

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

"The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel every change in their lives."

"Wisdom is not found in books alone but in the quiet observation of life itself."

"The art of life is not controlling what happens to you, but learning what to do with what happens."

"Every object you see has infinite dimensions; you need only learn to perceive them."

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

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"It's impossible to imagine an exciting life that is not, in some sense, a rebellion."

"The self that comes to mind as 'I' is a social institution."

"When you get the message, hang up the phone."

"Your body is not separate from the world; it is of the world."

"The trouble is that we are suffering from a culturally induced neurosis."

"Play is the only activity in which we can be completely ourselves."

"We are not going anywhere; we are arriving."

"The problem is that we are taught to be separate from nature."

"What we call the 'future' exists only as thought."

"Music is the shorthand of emotion."

"Zen does not confute the intellect; it simply says the intellect is not the whole story."

"The quality of life is determined by its capacity for feeling and experiencing joy."

"You are the universe exploring itself through human consciousness."

"The greatest transformations happen when we stop resisting reality."

"Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of birth."

"We seldom realize that we can change our feelings by a conscious direction of attention."