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“The difficulty for most of us is that we think we are something other than the universe. We feel that we are something special. That is a kind of sickness.”

— Alan Watts

The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Watts's diagnosis of the sickness of feeling separate from the whole.

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