Alan W. WattsMake a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.
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When you make a spurious division of one process into two then forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together, you are trying to figure out how something that is not even defined has the ability to become something other than it is. This example involves dividing something into two parts, forgetting that you have done it, and then trying to figure out how the parts come together.
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