Alan watts quotes and sayings

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

2. "We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society."

3. "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."

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

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

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

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

8. "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."

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

10. "The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive."

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