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Insight and Ecstacy by Alan Watts

Alan Watts Lectures

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The Difference Between Ecstasy and the Experience Itself

The experience itself is always a matter of insight and the insight, the understanding of the way things are, what you are, what life is, may indeed produce ecstasy. When one has been battling, say with some tremendous problem and suddenly finds the whole thing disappears then very naturally you feel enormously happy and joyous. And also I would add that the kind of insight which is the essence or the core of this sort of experience has a way of making the ordinary everyday world seem extraordinarily beautiful.

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