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The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
A short book by Alan Watts, published in 1966, which draws on Vedanta and Zen to question the sense of being a separate self. The quotation shown here was checked in the Internet Archive scan of the 1966 Pantheon edition.
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“Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.”
— Alan Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (Pantheon Books, 1966); checked in the Internet Archive scan of that edition