[T]he part and the whole, the individual and the cosmos, are what they are only in relation to one another. - Alan Watts

You can, indeed, refuse to admit this, but only at the cost of the immense and futile effort of spending your whole life resisting the inevitable

salvation and sanity consist in the most radical recognition that we have no way of saving ourselves.

tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live.