There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or j…

Alan Watts
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There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion. ✨ Alan Watts (2011). The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, p.5, Souvenir Press
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