Alan Watts Quotes

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

We have to learn to die in every moment in order to be fully alive.

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.

As the body fades - which it will inevitably do as we stay here on the planet - it really behooves us to wake up to who we really are. You can either go along willingly or be dragged, because it will happen.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. -

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.

I hold the view that death is rather like changing one's clothes when they are torn and old. It is not an end in itself. Yet death is unpredictable-you do not know when and howT it will take place.

Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say.

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.