Alan Watts quotes.

“There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering.”

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

“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.”

“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.”

“Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.”

“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.”

“To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead.”

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

“You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.”

“In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.”

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

“It's better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.”

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

“Faith is a state of openness or trust.”