Alan Watts
"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.""Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.""Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.""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.""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.""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.""A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.""When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.""If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.""You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago."
