"What I am really saying is that..." - Quote by Alan Watts
What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.
More by Alan Watts
“We usually don't look. We overlook.”
“The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to clutch water in one's hands - the harder one grips, the faster it slips through one's fingers.”
“You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.”
More on Self Acceptance
“you don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be”
“To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.”
“You will never learn anything new unless you are ready to accept yourself with your limitations. You must accept the fact that you are capable in some directions and limited in others, and you must develop your capabilities.”
More on Human Nature
“When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.”
“Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.”
“Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.”