Life Quotes Quote by Alan Watts — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“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.”

“The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.”

“The menu is not the meal.”

“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”

“God likes to play hide-and-seek, but because there is nothing outside of God, he has no one but himself to play with! But he gets over this difficulty by pretending that he is not himself. This is his way of hiding from himself. He pretends that he is you and I and all the people in the world, all the animals, plants, all the rocks, and all the stars. In this way he has strange and wonderful adventures, some of which are terrible and frightening. But these are just like bad dreams, for when he wakes up they will disappear.”

“We can only learn to love by loving.”

“Even death has a heart.”

“Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.”

““So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?"”

“I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.”

““The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially”