Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way, like the problem of cause and effect. Mak… - Alan Watts

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way

Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way,

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way, like the problem of cause and effect.

who believe more firmly in the Devil than in God are always afraid that if they let go, the Devil will take over first, unaware that not having let go is the Devil already in full control.

[I]t is not quite true that one must wait for something to happen spontaneously. For the heart is beating, the breath is moving, and all the senses are perceiving. A whole world of experience is coming to the organism of itself, without the slightest forcing. This spontaneous arrival of experience is not actually passive; it is already spontaneous action.

Part of the difficulty seems to be that we educate a style of consciousness which ignores whatever is a constant sensation. Consciousness is ever upon the alert for new conditions in the environment so as to keep the rest of the organism I informed about adaptations that must be made, and this style of attention comes to eclipse the more open and total style of sensitivity that we have in the beginning.