#us

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

— Alan Watts

#i #much #ocean #physical #universe

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. ↗

— Alan Watts

#exists #external #external world #independently #pretend

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. ↗

— Alan Watts

#difficulty #god #idea #implausible #incredible

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens. ↗

— Alan Watts

#common sense #confronting #culture #feel #identical

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present. ↗

— Alan Watts

#go #impoverished #live #present #reason

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us. ↗

— Alan Watts

#differentiation #happens #identify #our #us

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#dancing #music #music

I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#change #everything #hardly #hotel #hotel room

A lot of our tracks have sounded a lot better than I thought they would because of recording, mixing, and because I probably didn't hear it that way. I'm not a songwriter. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#better #hear #i #lot #mixing

I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#hell #i #just #know #liked