"If you are afraid of death, be..." - Quote by Alan Watts

“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.”

“To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.”

“We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.”

“My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping.”

“Oh well, no matter what happens, there's always death.”

“Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.”

“All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.”

“Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.”

“Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?”