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Alan Watts Lectures

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Essay 20 Pages on Your Idea of Heaven

We are as it were conceiving ourselves as a bunch of skeletons and they got no flesh on them just a bunch of bones. We're all looking for something to the future to bring us a goody where we know we ought to have there's a golden goody at the end of the line somewhere, he says. "This confused seeking is going on everywherewe don't know what we want nobody knows what they want" 'If you can write 20 pages on your idea of heaven it'll be a sorry production' He adds that in medieval art whether it did pictures of heaven and hell hell is always much better than heaven although it's uncomfortable.

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