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What did you forget? - Alan Watts

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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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    I'm just saying to them: "What you forget?"
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    Well, I don't know. 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 off.
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    What's is the most obvious thing I 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 John Doe, 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 in you infancy before they started telling you this stuff.
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    Who are you?
Title:
What did you forget? - Alan Watts
Description:

Alan Watts ask a simple yet profound question.."What did you forget?"

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Video Language:
English, British
Team:
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Duration:
03:34

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