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Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.
Alan Watts
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Alan Watts
Age: 58 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 6
Died: 1973
Died: November 16
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No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.
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