Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN WATTSTrying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN WATTSI owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN WATTSHuman desire tends to be insatiable.
ALAN WATTSTo travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
ALAN WATTSNormally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
ALAN WATTSWe do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
ALAN WATTSTrying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN WATTSYou didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
ALAN WATTSThe present is always changing the past.
ALAN WATTSReal travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
ALAN WATTSThe more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
ALAN WATTSIf one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
ALAN WATTSTry to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
ALAN WATTSTomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
ALAN WATTSWe know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
ALAN WATTSStay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
ALAN WATTS