Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

Alan Watts

All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.

All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.

We see what we believe rather than what we see.

We see what we believe rather than what we see.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

You are the universe experiencing itself.

You are the universe experiencing itself.

People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

By going out of your mind, you come to your senses

By going out of your mind, you come to your senses

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by the degree of presence.

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by the degree of presence.

Hatred is the madness of the heart.

Hatred is the madness of the heart.

Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?

Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

There is music in all things, if men had ears.

There is music in all things, if men had ears.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.

The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.