You are something that the whole universe is doing in the s… - Alan Watts

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You are something that the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing.

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Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was an English philosopher, writer, speaker, and expert in comparative religion.

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