Alan Watts Quotes Quotes

“Just as a wave is one with the ocean, you are one with the Universe.”
― Lauren Martin, One Wave

“Just as a wave is one with the ocean, you are one with the Universe. Like a wave in the ocean, you travel in your own unique form, on your own unique path. Like a wave, you are changed by things around you. Like a wave, you can change things around you in good ways or in bad ways. You can choose a path to love, heaven, joy.”
― Lauren Martin, One Wave

“You’re not just seeing the room—you’re the seeing itself. The silence beneath the hum.”
― David Maze, 9 Analogies of Consciousness

“I am reminded of the apocryphal conversation between Confucius and Lao Tzu when the former had been prating of universal love without the element of self: 'What stuff!' cried Lao Tzu, 'Does not universal love contradict itself? Is not your elimination of self a positive manifestation of self? Sir, if you would cause the world not to lose its source of nourishment— There is the universe: its regularity is unceasing. There are the Sun and Moon: their brightness is unceasing. There are the stars: their groupings never change. There are the birds and the beasts: they flock together without varying. There are trees and shrubs: they grow upwards without exception. Like these, accord with the Dao— with the way of all things— and be perfect. Why then these vain struggles after charity and duty to one's neighbor as though beating a drum in search of a fugitive? Alas, Sir you have brought much confusion into the mind of man.”
― Alan W. Watts, Become What You Are