Welcome to the Alan Watts Audio Experience; an Alan Watts Podcast for fans of one of the greatest philosophical geniuses of all time.  Todays Watts Wisdom Classic is titled 'Falling In Love' - one of Alan's most listened to and adored clips ever.

TRANSCRIPT:

falling in love and say it's crazy

falling you see we don't say rising in

to love there is in it the idea of the

fall and it is goes back as a matter of

fact two extremely fundamental things

that there is always a curious tie at

some point between the fall and the

creation

taking this ghastly risk is the

condition of their being life you see

for all the life is an act of faith and

an act of gamble

the moment you take a step you do so on

an act of faith because you don't really

know that the flaw is not going to give

under your feet

whoever to take a journey what an act of

faith the moment you enter into any kind

of human undertaking in relationship

what an act of faith see you've given

yourself up but this is the most

powerful thing that can be done

surrender

see and love is an act of surrender to

another person

howdy

I kept myself

take away anything you like

so

that's quite mad because you see it's

letting things get out of control all

sensible people keeping control

watchin watchin watchin security

vigilance

watch it please watch it guards watch it

so actually therefore leading the cause

of wisdom what is really sense is to let

go is to commit oneself to give oneself

up and that's my man so we come to the

strange conclude that in madness lies