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.

Those who search for happiness do not find it because they do not understand that the object of the search is the seeker.

The hard-bitten kind of person is always, as it were, a partial suicide; some of himself is already dead. If, then, we are to be fully human and fully alive and aware, it seems that we must be willing to suffer for our pleasures. Without such willingness there can be no growth in the intensity of consciousness.

Yet could anything be more obvious than that the past follows from the present like a comet's tail, and that if we are to be alive at all, here is the place to be?