The “I” was not, is not, and never will be a part of human personality. There is nothing unique, or “different,” or interesting about it. On the cont… - Alan Watts

It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about “I.

The faster things move in circles, the sooner they become indistinguishable blurs. It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about “I.

But the idea of a purposeless world is horrifying because it is incomplete. Purpose is a pre-eminently human attribute. To say that the world has no purpose is to say that it is not human[.] For what is not human appears to be inhuman only when man sets himself over against nature, for then the inhumanity of nature seems to deny man, and its purposelessness to deny his purposes. But to say that nature is not human and has no purpose is not to say what it has instead. The human body as a whole is not a hand, but it does not for this reason deny the hand.

what will happen to me when I die is, after all, like asking what happens to my fist when I open my hand

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.