For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increaseโoddly enoughโto the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.
Alan WattsWe know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
Alan WattsWhat we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.
Alan Watts