Canuknot (Cyn)

“How shall we escape the heat?”—meaning, of course, the heat of suffering. He answered, “Go right into the middle of the fire.” “But how, then, shall we escape the scorching flame?” “No further pain will trouble you!”
― Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

“The miracles of technology cause us to live in a hectic, clockwork world that does violence to human biology, enabling us to do nothing but pursue the future faster and faster.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

“he who would stand outside himself to kick himself, must then kick the self that stands outside. And so forever.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

“community is its own moralist. It elects and pays judges, policemen, and preachers, as if to say, “When I am difficult, please kick me.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity