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The Backwards Law
"The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one's negative experience is itself a positive experience."
So what philosopher Alan Watts refers [to "The Backwards Law"] is that : Wanting positive experience is a negative experience ; accepting negative experience is a positive experience.
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Reinforcements To "The Backwards Law" Idea
- The more you pursue feeling better all the time, the less satisfied you become-
- The more you desperately want to be rich, the more poor and unworthy you feel-
- The more you desperately want to be sexy & desired, the uglier you come to see yourself-
- The more you desperately want to be happy & loved, the lonelier & more afraid you become-
- The more you want to be spiritually enlightened, the more self-centred and shallow you become-
-in trying to get there.
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