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Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

Alan Watts
Acceptance, Frustration, Men

Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

Alan Watts
Inspiring, Frustration, Trying
Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.

Alan Watts
Frustration, Self, Perfect

There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. You cannot talk yourself into it or rouse it by straining at the emotions or by dedicating yourself solemnly to the service of mankind. Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.

Alan Watts
Life, Frustration, Self
"The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety". Book by Alan Watts, 1951.

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