Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality Not God in a politically kingly sense, but god in the sense of being the self, the deep-down basic whatever there is.
And you are all that, only you are pretending you are not.
ALAN WATTS
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Alan Watts had a pretty inspiring philosophy on life.
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