The Illusion of I
Alan Watts
The sensation of “I” as a lonely and isolated center of being is so powerful and commonsensical,
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and so fundamental to our modes of speech and thought,
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to our laws and social institutions,
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that we cannot experience selfhood except as something superficial in the scheme of the universe.
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If you awaken from this illusion
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and you understand that black implies white,
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self implies other,
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life implies death
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(or shall I say death implies life?),
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you can feel yourself –
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not as a stranger in the world,
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not as something here on probation,
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not as something that has arrived here by fluke -
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but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental.
The Illusion of I
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