You are something that the whole universe is doing, in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. ~ Alan Watts

Who you think you are does not exist. ~ Alan Watts

There is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity. ~ Alan Watts

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society. ~ Alan Watts