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Ep. 10 – Veil of Thoughts: Money, Relationships & Desire

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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Falling in Love Is a Disruption of the Marriage

If there is any method of attaining it, the best one is probably to give up the whole idea of getting it. But you see, it is completely unpredictable. And so it is, in that way, like falling in love, capricious and therefore crazy. So we must be far more realistic about the marriage arrangement so that it can contain the possibility of falling in love. If a marriage were based more on the old idea of the the reasonable contract between two people then if love strikes, it is tolerated within this arrangement.

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