When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is,…

Alan Watts
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When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was. ✨ Alan Watts (2010). What Is Zen?, p.123, New World Library
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