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“No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”

Alan Watts

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Image by mjs (drive around Portland, Oregon long enough and you see all sorts of things)

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This YouTube video (part 3 of a 4 part series) of a 1971 television program features the late Alan Watts ruminating on how we humans attempt to rigidly control our view of life and nature, to the point of suffering the marriage of an illusion with a falsehood. You can find parts 1, 2 & 4 of this program, as well as other Alan Watts content, here. Can we be like trees in the wind and still keep all of them from being chopped down? I don’t know. ++++