Alan Watts

"The more money you make, the more problems you get."

"In the context of the whole, nothing is ever wrong."

"Those who live for sensations live in a world of illusion."

"Nature is not something separate from us; we are part of nature."

"The greatest deception of man is his conception of himself."

"Wisdom is like electricity; it's not about possession but about flow."

"You cannot be enlightened about anything; enlightenment is seeing the light, not talking about it."

"The world is not something external to you."

"It is impossible for a human being to be completely selfish."

"The eternal now is the only time that exists."

"Technology is a trap that makes us feel we control nature."

"You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago."

"The greatest pleasure is not the gratification of a want but the overcoming of difficulty."

"Most of us are not really afraid of dying; we're afraid of not having lived."

"Courage is not the absence of fear but the movement toward what you fear."

"The real cycle of human existence is always spiraling upward."

"We are not made of matter; we are made of space."

"Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being."

"Consciousness cannot contemplate itself directly without distortion."

"The more you own, the more it owns you."

"Anxiety is the gap between our present circumstances and our uncertain future."

"To understand anything deeply, you must hold it lightly."

"The purpose of education is not to produce scholars but to produce beings."

"What we resist persists; what we accept transforms."

"Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature."

"You are a function of what the whole universe is doing."

"The ego creates boundaries; love dissolves them."

"The highest function of the intellect is not reasoning but intuition."

"We worship our own creations and have forgotten the creator."

"Nothing is ever really stationary; everything is flowing."