A man does not really begin to be alive until he has lost himself. Until he has released the anxious grasp which he normally holds upon his life, his property, his reputation and position.
Alan Watts 📖 | Philosophy & Timeless Wisdom ✍️twitter.comA man does not really begin to be alive until he has lost himself. Until he has released the anxious grasp which he normally holds upon his life, his property, his reputation and position.
It is simply the expression of the universal discovery that a man does not really begin to be alive until he has lost himself, until he has released the anxious grasp which he normally holds upon his life, his property, his reputation and position.
Alan W. Watts • Become What You Are: Expanded Edition
You are only really there when you let go of everything and do not depend on any fixed idea or belief for your sanity or happiness.
Watts,Alan • Buddhism the Religion of No-Religion (Alan Watts Love Of Wisdom)
you will not have illusory expectations that anything or anybody in the future will save you or make you happy. As far as your life situation is concerned, there may be things to be attained or acquired. That’s the world of form, of gain and loss. Yet on a deeper level you are already complete, and when you realize that, there is a playful, joyous
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