"What do you mean by happiness? What are "better" people better for? About what will you co-operate? What will you do with peace and prosperity?" - Alan Watts

that the more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.

It is obviously the purest anthropomorphism to assume that the absence of a human quality in bird, cloud, or star is the presence of a total blank, or to assume that what is not conscious is merely unconscious. Nature is not necessarily arranged in accordance with the system of mutually exclusive alternatives which characterize our language and logic. Furthermore, may it not be that when we speak of nature as blind, and of matter-energy as unintelligent, we are simply projecting upon them the blankness which we feel when we try to know our own consciousness as an object, when we try to see our own eyes or taste our own tongues?

us. The good of contemplation is contemplation — not some result that it may bring.