Alan Watts

Belief clings, but faith lets go.

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

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.

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

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

The past and future are real illusions; they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

The best medicine I have found is to love a woman.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.

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

To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.