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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Alan Watts
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Alan Watts
Age: 58 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 6
Died: 1973
Died: November 16
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We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives. As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves. The brain desiring things which the body does not want, and the body desiring things which the brain does not allow the brain giving directions which the body will not follow, and the body giving impulses which the brain cannot
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So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.
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The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol.
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