If we live we live if we die we die if we suffer we suffer if we are terrified we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

Alan Watts
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  1. It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are. - David Levithan

  2. Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. - Isaac Newton

  3. People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth. - Thomas Sowell

  4. I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he... - Henry David Thoreau

  5. Sincerity is simplicity. - Lailah Gifty Akita

More Quotes By Alan Watts
  1. Carried to its final extreme, the logical end of this type of reaction to life is suicide. The hard-bitten kind of person is always, as it were, a partial suicide; some of himself is already dead

  2. Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent... this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

  3. Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel for love is not ours to command.

  4. Zen is a way of liberation concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous but what is.

  5. If we live we live if we die we die if we suffer we suffer if we are terrified we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

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