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

Almost all civilized peoples have been brought up to think of themselves as ghosts in machines,

We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.

And the sage does not see himself as a little thing thrown into a vast and alien space: for him, the thing-space is a unity as inseparable as life-death, up-down, back-front, or inside-outside.