Alan Watts Quotes

I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.

I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.

Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.

I don't wanna be afraid, I wanna wake up feeling beautiful today, and know that I'm okay.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?

Every time I create something, just before that there's a kind of - you're feeling very low, you're feeling very down and insecure. Then you create and then it's fine. This is the way I observe me doing it.

Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.

Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.

Fear is all the fear of some loss: "I'm going to lose something." If we declare, and if we know in our hearts, "I already have everything that I need: I have life, I have creativity, I have joy, I have nourishment. I have everything I need," and if we just say, "It doesn't depend on my having a physical body to do it," then everything opens up.

He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.

That gut-wrenching feeling of defeat I can still feel today. Losing and God are the two things that I fear. I fear no man

For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt.

Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.

Craving security is the cause of insecurity. Freedom is knowing that the only point of arrival is now.

If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we are all ok. And not to worry because worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.

Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?

The fear that things may change tomorrow... Somebody may die, you may go bankrupt, your job may be taken away. There are a thousand and one things which may change. You are burdened with fears and fears, and none of them are valid - because yesterday also you were full of all these fears, unnecessarily. Things may have changed, but you are still alive. And man has an immense capacity to adjust himself in any situation.

If you are completely comfortable with your life, and feeling absolutely no anxiety, then you are probably coasting, and not really growing.

To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.

I don't have that addictive, "What's going on?" feeling anymore, thank god.

they worry about my sanity i join with them on that

Living based in security is living based in fear.