Traciebells

“the most basic Buddhist stance: sober examination of what lies before you, leaving aside all assumptions.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

“Indeed, one of the highest pleasures is to be more or less unconscious of one’s own existence, to be absorbed in interesting sights, sounds, places, and people. Conversely, one of the greatest pains is to be self-conscious, to feel unabsorbed and cut off from the community and the surrounding world.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”
― Sam Levenson, In One Era & Out the Other

“Lasting happiness—the underlying quest in almost all of Watts’s copious writing—can only be achieved by giving up the ego-self, which is a pure illusion anyway. The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity