“If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“You cannot understand life and its mysteries as long as you try to grasp it. Indeed, you cannot grasp it, just as you cannot walk off with a river in a bucket. If you try to capture running water in a bucket, it is clear that you do not understand it and that you will always be disappointed, for in…”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“It's like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash! And all that ink spread. And in the middle, it's dense, isn't it? And as it gets out on the edge, the little droplets get finer and finer and make more complicated patterns, see? So in the same way, there was a big bang at the beg…”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.”— Alan Watts, books.google.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
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead —his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though…”— Albert Einstein, amazon.com
“If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series…”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.”— Amit Ray, amazon.com
“every now and then, you will feel a dull ache in your soul. a gentle humming around your heart. a longing for something without a name. if i ever told you to obey anything, this would be it.”— Mia Hollow, miahollow.tumblr.com
“You are only as touched by the magic of this life as you want to be.”— Mia Hollow, miahollow.tumblr.com
“And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.”— Mary Oliver, amazon.com
“Know that we have met before and that we will meet again. I will find my way to you in the next life and every life after that.”— M.Hollow (@miahollow), instagram.com