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Alan Watts Lectures

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You Can't Concentrate on Purpose

You can neither achieve what you want to achieve nor liberation from the alternation of the opposites by striving. It is like trying not to think of a green elephant and immediately you think of it. What we were looking for was somebody who's spontaneity was genuine, so that the scaffolding didn't show. We believe that there are such people, like children, but they don't know how interesting they are. And when they find out they become brass.

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