Alan Watts Quotes about Effort

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Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.

Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.

Alan Watts

Life And Love, Effort, And Love

Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.53, Souvenir Press

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

Alan Watts

People, Effort, Ego

But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.

Alan Watts

Letting Go, Effort, Ego

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

Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen.

Alan Watts

Long, Effort, Mind

Alan Watts Quotes about Effort

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