"What we have to discover is that..." - Quote by Alan Watts
What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
More by Alan Watts
“You are something that the whole world is doing just as when the sea has waves on it.”
“However much I may be impressed by the difference between a star and the dark space around it, I must not forget that I can see the two only in relation to each other, and that this relation is inseparable.”
“The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.”
More on Safety
“Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.”
“But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies.”
“I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.”