For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath …

Alan Watts
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For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God. ✨ Alan Watts (1951). The Wisdom of Insecurity, Vintage
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