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Alan Watts Philosophy Lecture

Alan Watts Lectures

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Getting Rid of Your Ego Is a Superhuman Task

"I want to find a method whereby I can change my consciousness, but the therefore to improve myself," he says. "The self that needs to be improved is the one that is doing the improving" The unloving me has to turn itself into a loving me by gimmickry or some other way,. But this is just like trying to lift yourself off the ground with your own bootstraps. It can't be done."

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