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Alan Watts - Who is it who knows there is no ego

Alan Watts Lectures

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Symbols of the Divine

Jung was right in a way. When he said that is inflation. It is turning your ego into God instead of having God as your ego. Because it didn't understand. If you are going to let up all these great energies in the unconscious, you must be wise. You must know something about it. Not jump to silly conclusions and delusions. And for some reason, as yet unexplained, when anybody wants to create a symbol of the divine, they use a flower or a star. The rose window, the lotus. I eventually settle for a flower. That's why they bring flowers to sick people in hospitals. Take a morning glory and look at it. Did you ever see

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