"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."
-Alan Watts
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"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.“
-Alan Watts
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"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe."
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