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> [Alan Watts, the Buddhist scholar, proposed the existence of a mental faculty he called forgettory, which is the flip side of memory. There are times, Watts maintained, when we need to forget things, to let them slip away into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-dossey/alan-watts-the-buddhist-scholar-proposed-the-existence-of-a-mental/)

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