[S]ocial institutions are simply rules of communication which have no more universal validity than, say, the rules of a particular grammar. - Alan Watts

Nor do I want to tell her just what I think of it in so many blunt words, because this would be uncharitable, and it might be knocking away a valuable stepping-stone to something better.

"We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.

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