"By replacing fear of the unknown with..." - Quote by Alan Watts
By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.
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“To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.”
“You can't get wet from the word 'water.'”
“Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.”
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“A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by the irresistible anxiety to discover what the orange bells and whistles and the invisible globes on the other side of death were like.”
“One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.”
“I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.”