But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including my thoughts and actions---were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that I make them; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of opposites. β¨ Alan Watts (2017). Psychotherapy East & West, p.65, New World Library
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