Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double…

Alan Watts
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Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering. ✨ Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness, p.76, New World Library
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