Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry. ― Mark Strand

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If I could take your troubles I would toss them into the sea, But all these things I'm finding Are impossible for me. I cannot build a mountain Or catch a rainbow fair, But let me be what I know best, A friend that is always there.

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To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. ― Alan Watts

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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.― Santosh Kalwar

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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social environment. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

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