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Alan W. Watts Quotes: So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
         

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.


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