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the enemies of life

Watts, Alan. The Way of Zen. New York: Vintage, 1957.

Reasonable—that is, human—men will always be capable of compromise, but men who have dehumanized themselves by becoming the blind worshipers of an idea or an ideal are fanatics whose devotion to abstractions makes them the enemies of life. (30)

Posted by pzed on August 19, 2006 at 10.56am
Categories: fragments, scripture

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