“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, amazon.com
“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.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“We fail so easily to see the difference between fear of the unknown and respect for the unknown, thinking that those who do not hasten in with bright lights and knives are deterred by a holy and superstitious fear. Respect for the unknown is the attitude of those who, instead of raping nature, woo h…”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. And even a cursory glance at…”— Thomas Henry Huxley, amazon.com
“The fear of an unknown never resolves, because the unknown expands infinitely outward, leaving you to cling pitifully to any small shelter of the known: a cracker has twelve calories; the skin, when cut, bleeds.”— Caroline Kettlewell, amazon.com
“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.”— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com
“Would you like to know your future? If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator. So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence, a surprise.”— Vera Nazarian, amazon.com
“You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle.”— Shannon Alder, amazon.com
“A wise man who I loved very much once said: “Let’s stop finding a new witch of the week and burning them at the stake. We are all horrible and wonderful and figuring it out.””— Stephanie Wittels Wachs, medium.com
“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.com
“The Anxiety Trick is this: You experience Discomfort, and get fooled into treating it like Danger. What do we do when we're in danger? We only have three things: Fight, Flight, and Freeze. If it looks weaker than me, I'll fight it. If it looks stronger than me, but slower, I'll run away. And if it l…”— David Carbonell, anxietycoach.com
“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”— Yann Martel, amazon.com
“Is it better to out – monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”— Freidrich Nietzsche, alien-bambi.tumblr.com
“To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward, you must go back. To touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow.”— George R. R. Martin, amazon.com
“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com