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"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun."

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MORE QUOTES BY Alan Watts

“We are renewed by glimpsing the abyss.”

Alan Watts

“Man suffers only because he takes seriously.”

“The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.”

“We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.”

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