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The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (Vintage)
by Alan Watts,Alan Watts
A Favorite of 6, Read by 38, Owned by 33, Reviewed by 1, Quotes 3
Modern Western culture and technology is inextricably tied to the belief in the existence of a self as a separate ego, separated from and in conflict with the rest of the world. In this classic book, Watts provides a lucid...(more)
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Quotes from The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (Vintage)

What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only
the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of
the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future,
and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just
as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything,
there is never anything to be gained--though the zest of the game is to pretend
there is.

Alan Watts : English mystic & writer
Alan Watts (1915 - 1973)
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