[F]ire is not evil because it burns your fingers if you try… - Alan Watts

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[F]ire is not evil because it burns your fingers if you try to catch hold of it; it is only dangerous.

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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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Evil” read backwards is “live.” Demon est deus inversus.

long as the mind believes in the possibility of escape from what it is at this moment, there can be no freedom.

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[F]ire is not evil because it burns your fingers if you try to catch hold of it; it is only dangerous. - Alan Watts

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