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Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

Alan Watts
Running, Pain, Fighting
Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple greed will be far less destructive, because the aggressor will be careful not to destroy what he is fighting to capture. Reasonable - that is, human - men will always be capable of compromise, but men who have dehumanized themselves by becoming the blind worshipers of an idea or an ideal are fanatics whose devotion to abstractions makes them the enemies of life.

Alan Watts
War, Fighting, Simple
"The Way of Zen".

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 Watts
Running, Pain, Fighting
Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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