The miracles of technology cause us to live in a hectic, clockwork world that does violence to human biology, enabling us to do nothing but pursue th… - Alan Watts

The miracles of technology cause us to live in a hectic, clockwork world that does violence to human biology,

You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.

you realize that you live in, that indeed you are this moment now, and no other, that apart from this there is no past and no future, you must relax and taste to the full, whether it be pleasure or pain.

Reasonable–that is, human–men will always be capable of compromise, but men who have dehumanized themselves by becoming the blind worshipers of an idea or an ideal are fanatics whose devotion to abstractions makes them the enemies of life.