If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is no escape. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion. ― Alan Watts

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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter. ― 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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. ― Alan Watts

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But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything. ― Alan Watts

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The process of change does not occur on superficial levels, through mere “positive thinking.” It involves exploring, discovering, and changing our deepest, most basic attitudes toward life.

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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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