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. – “The Essence of Alan Watts” (1977)
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obcious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achive something beyound themselves. – Alan Watts
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence. – Alan Watts
Because most humans spend their entire lifetime looking outward at thoughts, the body, the world, people, places, things, etc., most humans have never even once observed their own Being, not even for one second, in their entire lifetime.