Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them. ✨ Alan W.…

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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them. ✨ Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness, p.27, New World Library
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