Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Fait…

Alan Watts
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Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time. ✨ Alan Watts (2011). The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, p.53, Souvenir Press
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