alanbwt on Nostr: “But the reason is, of course, you see, that when you get rid of the idea of the ...

“But the reason is, of course, you see, that when you get rid of the idea of the governor and the governed, the boss and the employee, the king and the subject, there aren't any victims. Every creature that suffers in this world is unbeknownst, perhaps, to itself, doing it to itself. No one else is responsible. There are no victims. Because the whole thing is a unity. It is of itself so. Everything is of itself so. No one to blame.”

— Alan Watts, Taoism