To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.
Alan WattsThe more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.
Alan WattsOur view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.
Alan Watts