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What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the

What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.

Alan Watts
Inspiring, Running, Stars
Alan Watts (2010). “Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation”, p.92, New World Library

There is only this now. It does not come from anywhere; it is not going anywhere. It is not permanent, but it is not impermanent. Though moving, it is always still. When we try to catch it, it seems to run away, and yet it is always here and there is no escape from it. And when we turn around to find the self which knows this moment, we find that it has vanished like the past.

Alan Watts
Running, Moving, Past
"The Way of Zen".

Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

Alan Watts
Running, Pain, Fighting
Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, "I am all this!" There is simply all this.

Alan Watts
Running, Thinking, Countryside
Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is no escape.

Alan Watts
Running, Pain, Fighting
Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy.

Alan Watts
Running, Stars, Fire
Alan Watts (2010). “Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation”, p.92, New World Library

For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which put things in at one end and let them out at the other, which which both keeps them doing it and in the long run wears them out. So to keep the farce going, the tubes find ways of making new tubes, which also put things in at one end and let them out at the other.

Alan Watts
Running, Race, Long

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