Alan Watts Quote - What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

"What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it."

— Alan Watts

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Author: Alan Watts
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