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Alan Watts Philosophy Lecture

Alan Watts Lectures

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Chronic Tension

When an organ is working properly, you don't feel it. We all make this muscular straining with the thought that it's achieving psychological results. When we are aware of the ego eye, we're aware of this chronic tension inside ourselves. And that's not us. It's a futile tension. So when we get the illusion, the image of ourselves, married to a futile tension, you've got an illusion married to futility.

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