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Wednesday Wisdom: Alan Watts Says You Are An Aperture For The Universe

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This week’s #WednesdayWisdom comes from Alan Watts, a British-born philosopher best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience.

In his worldview—drawing from Hinduism, Chinese philosophy, panentheism, and modern science—Watts asserted “that our conception of ourselves as an ‘ego in a bag of skin’ is a myth; the entities we call the separate ‘things’ are merely aspects of the whole.”