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Whether we like it or not, change comes, and the greater the resistance, the greater the pain.

Alan Watts

1995

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Resistance to change Change Acceptance

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Religious literature Philosophical literature

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1995

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Alan Watts

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Watts, Alan. Become What You Are. Shambhala, 1995.

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