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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

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Alan Watts
Inspiring, Pain, Mental Health
Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise; you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are.

Alan Watts
Pain, Ghost, Forgotten
Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.29, Souvenir Press

The real reason why human life can be so utterly exasperating and frustrating is not because there are facts called death, pain, fear, or hunger. The madness of the thing is that when such facts are present, we circle, buzz, writhe, and whirl, trying to get the I out of the experience... Sanity, wholeness and integration lie in the realisation that we are not divided, that man and his present experience are one, and that no separate I or mind can be found .... [Life] is a dance, and when you are dancing, you are not intent on getting somewhere. The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.

Alan Watts
Pain, Real, Lying

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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