#In sound mind alan wake skin#
#In sound mind alan wake free#

The point is that they are different but inseparable, like the front end and the rear end of a cat. But the mistake in the beginning was to think of solids and space as two different things, instead of as two aspects of the same thing.

Then it appeared that space was no mere nothing, because solids couldn’t do without it. We supposed that solids were one thing and space quite another, or just nothing whatever. It cannot be copied.” – Alan WattsĢ8. “The problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way.

“There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. Obviously, we try to know, name, and define fear in order to make it “objective,” that is, separate from “I.”” – Alan Watts It is so easy to see why this does not work. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to resort to superstition of trust in curses and invocations. Faith in life, in other people, and in oneself, is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.” – Alan WattsĢ3. “Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.” – Alan WattsĢ4. “Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.” – Alan WattsĢ5. “What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.” – Alan WattsĢ6. “Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names.

#In sound mind alan wake free#

You are not a stranger here.” – Alan Wattsġ9. “To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.” – Alan WattsĢ0. “The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.” – Alan WattsĢ1. “Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.” – Alan WattsĢ2. “Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. “The only Zen you’ll find on mountain tops is the Zen you bring up there with you.” – Alan Wattsġ8. “You didn’t come into this world. You could use the dictionary, because… the sound of the rain needs no translation.” – Alan Wattsġ3. “Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up… now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.” – Alan Wattsġ4. “Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.” – Alan Wattsġ5. “ Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.” – Alan Wattsġ6. “The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs.” – Alan Watts And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” – Alan Wattsġ2. “If you really understand Zen… you can use any book. I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.” – Alan Wattsġ1. “This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now.

#In sound mind alan wake skin#

Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.” – Alan Wattsġ0. “No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Instead you relax, and float.” – Alan Wattsĩ. “There is always something taboo, something repressed, un-admitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one’s eye because a direct look is too unsettling. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. “To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.” – Alan Wattsħ. “When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.” – Alan Watts But we must not suffer over the suffering.” – Alan WattsĤ. “Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.” – Alan Wattsĥ. “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan WattsĦ. “But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. 1. “We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.” – Alan WattsĢ. “Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever….” – Alan Wattsģ. “There will always be suffering.