"[Man] is kicked out of Paradise, because Paradise is having a connection—roots in the garden, stem from the branch, current to the light. To be unaware of the connection is to have one's heart in the wrong place—far out in the fruit instead of within, in the tree.
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It is to feel that one's basic self is isolated within the body's envelope of skin, forgetting that the self is the whole circulating current from which embodiments come and go season after season, endless variations upon one theme."
—Alan Watts, Beyond Theology