All ALAN WATTS Quotes about “Anxiety”

“A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.”
“No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.”
“We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.”
“Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.”
“Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.”
“Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.”
“For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increaseâ€”oddly enoughâ€”to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.”

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