“We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.”
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Alan Watts
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The Wisdom of Insecurity
Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
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Context: These rays, as generated in the vacuum tube, are not homogeneous, but consist of bundles of different wave-lengths, analogous to what would be differences of colour could we see them as light. Some pass easily through flesh, but are partially arrested by bone, while others pass with almost equal facility through bone and flesh.
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