1.3.20 // Alan Watts.

“Now as far as I can see, the basic mistake is that we've invented this wonderful system of language, and calculation...
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and that it is at once too simple to deal with the complexity of the world and also that we are liable to confuse that system of simples with the world itself...
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just as we confuse money with wealth.
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A lot of people are in business to make money instead of wealth...
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when they make money they don't know what to do with it.
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And no wonder we feel cut off from everything, alienated, frightened of life and death.
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we have to come back to the view of our own life...
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which is the way we really are, an organism functioning in terms of the whole environment, with the whole environment, instead of this funny little separate personality.”