Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.


The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness (ed. New World Library, 2013) - ISBN: 9781608682041

Alan Watts Quotes

Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material,...

Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material,...

Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material,...

Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material,...