Alan Watts Quotes — Wisdom Collection

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

— Alan Watts

“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.”

— Alan Watts

“This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now.”

— Alan Watts

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

— Alan Watts

“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.”

— Alan Watts

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

— Alan Watts

“We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.”

— Alan Watts

“The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only delightful because they are changing.”

— Alan Watts

“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”

— Alan Watts

“You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean.”

— Alan Watts

“Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.”

— Alan Watts

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

— Alan Watts

“Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.”

— Alan Watts

“The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging on the other.”

— Alan Watts

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

— Alan Watts