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What Alan Watts means by “trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth”

Alan Watts was one of the most entertaining, intelligent, illuminating, and all around fascinating western philosophers of the 20th century, who passed on wisdom as a prolific researcher, writer, teacher, and speaker. Throughout his career, Alan Watts did a tremendous service to the collective spiri...

The Way of Zen (Alan Watts)

Children are conditioned to accept the codes of the societies they are brought up in. They are reinforced with the symbol-systems of their parents, religions, schools, communities, cultures, peer groups, and so on. They are influenced by these symbol-systems during their development, despite whet...