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No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

Alan Watts
Differences, Worry, Anxiety
Alan Watts (2017). “Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek”, p.93, Sounds True

Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

Alan Watts
Laughter, Real, Anxiety
Alan Watts (2011). “In My Own Way: An Autobiography”, p.57, New World Library

We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.

Alan Watts
Roots, Anxiety, Strange

Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

Alan Watts
Opposites, Anxiety, Forever

Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.

Alan Watts
Anxiety, Brain, Attention

For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.

Alan Watts
Intelligent, Organization, Anxiety
Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

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