[WATTS]
- "Only, we've been taught to watch that thing, and to cherish it, and to value it, and it matters damn it. And yet it's going to wear out, and yet it gets sick, and yet it's going to die. And so, everybody is involved in playing the game of life, in a way that goes beyond play and becomes deadly serious."

[LUCID]
Finding my reason, insane in my season
I'm losing my way when I'm led by the legion 
Ascend from my grave, need to get with my feeling 
& not be afraid, cause it all comes to nothing
Still here for something, I fill up my lungs
Let it go when I'm done
Up the hill silent running
Pull myself up to my feet 
I release finally free 
Bugging out, now recede
So to shed in the shade, crawling out of my skin 
On the mend till I lay, in a dream wide awake
Gather up, throw away, everything can't be saved 
All is changing in nature, nothing stays the same 
Feel the pull of the tide 
Take me safe to my death 
In the end All divine
In the end All at rest 
Not a test or a lesson
But blessing to tread 
Every step right and left
Lead us right off the ledge

[WATTS]
"And as a result, the whole of existence is lived in a state of constant frustration, because you are trying all the time to hold together and preserve, something that, in the long run, can't be preserved at all."


[LUCID]
🔁Repeat🔁

[WATTS]
"Therefore, in response to this cry of pain, which everybody puts up in response to being in this situation of trying to hold onto things, the wisdom of the various ways of liberation, weather they be Hindu or Buddhist or whatever, is saying to everybody, 'Wake up! See what the scene is! This is the kind of thing that's going on, and YOU are not a captive in a trap. You're not just some mere little measly being that somehow or other was brought into an insane universe, but you are what the thing is. You are not the victim, you are the system."

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REASON w/ Alan Watts

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