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Fighting pain

Alan Watts – Collection 2
Fighting pain was last modified: July 29th, 2014 by quotemirror

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Running away from fear is fear.
Fighting pain is pain.
Trying to be brave is being scared.
If the mind is in pain,
the mind is pain.

Alan Watts


   

Alan Watts – Collection 2



Alan Watts

Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British-born philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Pursuing a career, he attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he received a master's degree in theology. Watts became an Episcopal priest then left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.

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