Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. … - Alan Watts

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As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.

Alan Watts

Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.

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