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self-improvement

Alan Watts on How to Make Yourself a Better Person

February 4, 2017May 14, 2016 by Aaron Graves

As someone interested in self-improvement, I found this compilation of snippets from an Alan Watts lecture to be an interesting take on the subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj4Yfdg4Nfw “Kindly let me help you or you’ll drown” said the monkey, putting the fish safely up a tree.

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