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 identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
Alan WattsThe more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security. On the other hand, the more we are forced to admit that we actually live in the real world, the more we feel ignorant, uncertain, and insecure about everything.
Alan Watts