"To run away is the only defense of something rigid against an overwhelming force. Therefore the good shock absorber has not only "give," but also st… - Alan Watts

The death of the individual is not disconnection but simply withdrawal. The corpse is like a footprint or an echo — the dissolving trace of something which the Self has ceased to do.

You are something that the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing.

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.