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You know, you can always bug people,

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in a beautiful way, in a very helpful way.

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by just saying to them: "What did you forget?"

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Well, I don't know. What was I supposed to remember?

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Oh, I'm really not trying to put you on, I mean it's not difficult.

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This is something completely obvious that you forgot.

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You would easily remember it, because it's so obvious.

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Well that's the hardest thing in the world to think of.

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What's is the most obvious thing I've forgotten?

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Hell, what's that?

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Well who do you think you are?

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How do you answer that question? Who are you?

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Will you give a name?

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You say, "I'm Joe Doe, cause I'm Alan Watts."

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That is not true!

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That's what people told you, you are!

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They put that name on you, and they torch you

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to identify with it and to behave as it was expected to behave.

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But that's not who you are, you know very well.

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Go back in your memory, go back into your infancy before they started telling you all this stuff.

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Who are you?

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And if you get with that you'll know very well who you are

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What you are basically, deep deep down, far far in

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is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself

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only there's a conspiracy that you musn't let on about that.

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Because everybody is. And if one person realizes it the other's a little bit offended

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And they say: "well, how come you're so great?"

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So, everybody therefore who gets an intimation of who they really are

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and ever comes out with it in Christian civilization, people say: "who the hell do you think you are? You Jesus Christ?"

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Or you can say: "Jesus Christ said he was Jesus Christ and everybody put him down through it and that's what you're doing to me."

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There is a, an as it were recess of the soul, of the psyche.

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Where everybody knows perfectly well that you are not just this irresponsible little mouse

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that's been chucked down into this world.

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But that you are really doing this work.

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You're running it.

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Only you can't admit just in the same way as you can't admit that you're responsible for the way your own heart beats.

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You say: "Oh, that's not my doing. I've no control over my heart. Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will?"