Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to…

Alan Watts
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Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to resort to superstition of trust in curses and invocations. It is so easy to see why this does not work. Obviously, we try to know, name, and define fear in order to make it “objective,” that is, separate from “I. ✨ Alan Watts (1951). The Wisdom of Insecurity, Vintage
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