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Alan Watts on Mother's Day

1915–1973 England

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5 quotes

Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them.

The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)

There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.

The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)

The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.

The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)

Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)

It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.

The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alan Watts (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.