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Alan Watts Explains Why There Are No “Wrong” Feelings.
According to Alan Watts, your feelings are not wrong. There may be wrong actions in the sense of actions contrary to the rules of human communication. But the way you feel towards other people: loving, hating, et cetera, et cetera; there aren’t any wrong feelings.
And so, to try and force one’s feelings to be other than what they are is absurd. And furthermore: dishonest.
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