"I have no other self than the..." - Quote by Alan Watts

“To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is no escape.”

“Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.”

“There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity of the universe and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do.”

“Things do not change; we change.”

“If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self... so the hell with it... I will continue to be unconcerned about it, which surely has the advantage that I'm left in peace by many a fop who would otherwise come to see me.”

“Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.”

“Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.”

“Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.”

“Awareness of death is the very bedrock of the entire path. Until you have developed this awareness, all other practices are obstructed.”