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When the ocean has a wave on it, the wave isn’t separate from the ocean, is it? Every wave on the ocean is the whole ocean waving. The ocean waves and says: „Yohoo, I’m here“. So the ocean of being waves every one of us, and we are its waves. But the wave is fundamentally the ocean. Now in that way your sense of identity would be turned inside out. You wouldn’t forget who you were, you wouldn’t forget your name and address, your telephone number, your social security number and what sort of role you are supposed to occupy in society, but you would know that this particular role that you play, this particular personality that you are is superficial. And the real you is all that there is.

Allan Watts — Intro to Zen
1 year ago