
Alan Watts Lecture
Alan Watts Lectures
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Is There a Relationship Between the Individual and the World?
Only you rationalized that you didn't. Only you said sometimes it was my duty but you preferred a conception of yourself as someone who always does his duty. That flattered you and so you were still following your own way. The thing is it doesn't have to be brought into being, it's there. You do behave in a different way. But the behavior, the new kind of behavior that is a result of a transformation is not forced behavior. When you try to imitate the way a saint behaves, you have made a forced change and you know all forced behavior is phony. It's like someone saying, I love you, I loveyou, I loveYou when you don't
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