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Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre? As long as you do that you can never recognise your freedom.
Wei Wu Wei
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Wei Wu Wei
Born: 1895
Born: September 14
Philosopher
Felixstowe
Suffolk
Terence Gray
Terence James Gray
Terence James Stannus Gray
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