Alan Watts Anxiety Quotations

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

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 increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.

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.

Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.