Alan Wilson Watts

1915-1973, British/American Philosopher, Writer

Attention / Awareness
I think myself into silence and, by writing, help others similarly spellbound by thoughts and words to come to silence – which is the realization that a linear code cannot justly represent a nonlinear world. But this intellectual silence is not failure, defeat or suicide. It is a return to that naked awareness, that vision unclouded by commentary, which we enjoyed as babies in the days when we saw no difference between knower and known, deed and happening.
In My Own Way , 1972
Attitude
Life is not a problem. If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; it appears that we are the problem.

Wisdom for The Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing , © 2004